Rule of Law
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 by Randy Singer
Thriller/Suspense
Tyndale
What did the president know? And when did she know it?
For the members of SEAL Team Six, it was a rare mission ordered by the president, monitored in real time from the Situation Room. The Houthi rebels in Yemen had captured an American journalist and a member of the Saudi royal family. Their executions were scheduled for Easter Sunday. The SEAL team would break them out.
But when the mission results in spectacular failure, the finger-pointing goes all the way to the top.
Did the president play political games with the lives of U.S. service members?
Paige Chambers, a determined young lawyer, has a very personal reason for wanting to know the answer. The case she files will polarize the nation and test the resiliency of the Constitution. The stakes are huge, the alliances shaky, and she will be left to wonder if the saying on the Supreme Court building still holds true.
Equal justice under law.
It makes a nice motto. But will it work when one of the most powerful people on the planet is also a defendant?
Learn more and purchase a copy. My thoughts:
Show-time
under the big top. SEAL Team Six has
just taken center stage. For good or for
ill, the lives of an American Journalist and the son of the Saudi royal family
rested in the hands of one of the most capable Special Forces Units currently
under arms. Expertly trained, incredibly
equipped, this should have been a walk in the park.
Of
course, one can never forget the most-oft quoted proverb of the SEAL Team
community: “The only good day was
yesterday.” And with bad – bogus? –
intel, the “walk in the park” becomes a bloody fight for survival. In the
aftermath, hard questions are being asked, and no one seems to be able to
provide the answers.
Did the
president play political games with the lives of U.S. service members?
Who was
ultimately responsible for the spectacular failure of SEAL Team Six?
Paige
Chambers, a determined young lawyer, has a very personal reason for wanting to
know the answer. The case she files will polarize the nation and test the
resiliency of the Constitution. The stakes are huge, the alliances shaky, and
she will be left to wonder if the saying on the Supreme Court building still
holds true.
Equal
justice under law.
It
makes a nice motto. But will it work when one of the most powerful people on
the planet is also a defendant?
Randy
Singer has written what can only be called an epic tour de force of legal and
military suspense. His writing is tight,
his plot lines are engaging, and the action rarely allows for the reader to
take a ragged breath.
My only
criticism is simply this; the book is just too long! At 473 pages, and with a cast of 40
characters to keep track of (there is a CAST OF CHARACTERS at the beginning of
the book), one is reminded of Abbot and Costello’s infamous radio program,
WHO’S ON FIRST? Perhaps the CAST OF
CHARACTERS at the front of the book should be detachable?
If you
have the necessary patience and stamina, as well as the time and inclination,
Randy Singer produces a fictional story that reads like yesterday’s headlines
in terms of authenticity. Along the way,
the author forces the reader to really think through what we have always
naively accepted as THE RULE OF LAW.
4 stars
for an excellent book that requires a lot from the reader.
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Meet the Author
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Randy Singer is a critically acclaimed, award-winning author and veteran trial attorney. He has penned more than 10 legal thrillers and was recently a finalist with John Grisham and Michael Connelly for the inaugural Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal. Randy runs his own law practice and has been named to Virginia Business magazine's select list of "Legal Elite" litigation attorneys. In addition to his law practice and writing, Randy serves as teaching pastor for Trinity Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He calls it his "Jekyll and Hyde thing"---part lawyer, part pastor. He also teaches classes in advocacy and civil litigation at Regent Law School and, through his church, is involved with ministry opportunities in India. He and his wife, Rhonda, live in Virginia Beach. They have two grown children.
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