by Stacey Abrams
Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn stuns colleagues, family and foes when it is revealed that he has given his law clerk Avery Keane, his power of attorney.
Suffering from a terminal neurological disorder, Justice Wynn now lies in the hospital in a coma. Pending before the Supreme Court is a case involving the merger of an Indian biotech firm and an American pharmaceutical company. The president of the United States opposes the merger on the grounds that it would threaten national security.
But together the two firms have the knowledge and technology to cure the disease that is killing Justice Wynn. It’s too late for the justice, but not for his estranged son Jared.
Avery finds herself in a storm of publicity and suspicion that threaten her future as an attorney. But a series of messages relayed to her through Wynn’s files, his son and his nurse, lead Avery to believe the stakes here are high, much higher than the medical fate of a man and his son.
The more she unravels Justice Wynn’s baffling clues, the more she realizes that the techniques that can cure the justice, can also be weaponized. In fact, it may already be in process. But by whom?
Avery knows she’s being watched and followed. Can she uncover the players and the stakes before they eliminate her or Justice Wynn?
This is a legal thriller of the highest order. Avery uses her legal training and what she learned as Judge Wynn’s clerk to apply the law like a fencer.
This book is suspenseful and highly entertaining.
About the Author: Stacey Abrams (1973 – )
Stacey Abrams is a lawyer, a politician, a voting rights activist — and a novelist.
After earning a law degree at Yale University, she served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017 and as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. In 2018, she was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, becoming the first African-American female gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States.
Although she lost the election, she went on to be the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address. She founded Fair Fight Action, an organization that addresses voter suppression 2018. She is credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia, including the 2020 presidential election and Georgia’s 2020-2021 U.S. Senate election and special election. The first won the state for President Joe Biden and the second gave Democrats enough seats to control the Senate.
She is also the successful author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her nonfiction books are OUR TIME IS NOW and LEAD FROM THE OUTSIDE, which were both New York Times best sellers. Under the pen name Selena Montgomery, she published eight fiction books. WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS (2021) was published under her real name.
