The President of the United States of America is up for re-election and someone has been murdered. His opponent in the election is thought to have suggested a link between the president and the murder victim for political superiority purposes. However, this isn’t the case. President Christopher Farrington has a background that no one knows about and the people who surround him are very protective of his situation. He leaves behind a trail of broken lives that everyone wants to hide at all costs.

Dana Cutler is a young ex-cop who does private detective work now because of several really bad things that happened to her while she was on duty. Her life is screwed because of the residue of that case.

Brad Miller is a very new attorney who just got accepted as an Associate at a rather prestigious law firm in Portland and he has a disgusting job to do for a habeas corpus, wrongful conviction writ that he has to defend from an old trial. The victim, Laurie Erickson, was mutilated and murdered by Clarence Little who is a serial killer in the Portland area, or so the old pages say.

Miller has to visit Lttle in prison, on death row, to get his side of the story. Little makes his case by proving that he couldn’t have committed this murder. Meanwhile, there is another murder, a serial type, in Washington DC that Cutler inadvertently gets involved in. She sees and knows too much and her situation gets messy really fast.

In steps Keith Evans, the Lead Agent for the FBI in the case of the DC Ripper, who is suspected of having murdered Charlotte Walsh, the woman Cutler was tailing. Walsh worked on Farrington’s re-election campaign.

Could this involve the White House and, if so, how much, and up to whom? Is Farrington just a sleaze, or is he a murderer who has minions to protect him? This book is a masterpiece of fiction that will leave you wondering about our judicial processes and the ways people get to the White House in their excruciatingly painful steps up the ladder.

Great book, Mr. Margolin. I am proud to have read this book. It gave me pause to think about our whole system from the judicial, to the press and through to the Presidency. And there was a bit of good old-fashioned romance interspersed, also. Overall, I am very impressed. Thank you for the pleasure of Executive Privilege. I hope to see this on the big screen someday soon; I would pay the ticket price to see it even though I have read the book.