(Much later, when David thanked her for being the spark that ignited his writing career, she revealed that she’d given him the notebook to keep him quiet, 'because every mom needs a break now and then.”)ĭavid published his first novel, Absolute Power, in 1996 the feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. Meanwhile, lurking at the novel's center like a venomous spider is the sociopathic president.ĭavid Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories. Meanwhile, Jack Graham, once a public defender and now a high-powered corporate attorney, gets drawn into the case because the on-the-lam burglar just happens to be the father of his former financee, a crusading Virginia prosecutor.Įmbroidering the narrative through assorted plot whorls are the hero's broken romance his conflict over selling out for financial success the prosecutor's confused love-hate for her burglar father the relentless investigation by a northern Virginia career cop the dilemma of government agents trapped in a moral catch-22 the amoral ambitions of a sexy White House Chief of Staff and the old burglar's determination to bring down the ruthless president. Running for his life, but not before he picks up a bloodstained letter opener that puts the president at the scene of the crime, the burglar becomes the target of a clandestine manhunt orchestrated by leading members of the executive branch. A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world's richest men, only to witness, through a one-way mirror, two Secret Service agents kill the billionaire's trampy young wife as she tries to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation's chief executive.

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