Award-winning author Paul Levine captures the dark side of the legal world with gripping, mordantly witty prose that "gets leaner, meatier, better with every book" (Miami Herald). Now, he delivers a thrillingly authentic page-turner about the murderous secrets of those who make and break the law at the highest level: the United States Supreme Court.
Lisa Fremont is a rising young lawyer gifted with a brilliant mind, natural beauty -- and an alluring sensuality. A newly hired law clerk on the staff of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Truitt, Lisa has a bright future. She also has a past that her curriculum vitae doesn't reveal....Long before she was Lisa Fremont, Esquire, she was Angel, an underage stripper in San Francisco's Tiki Club. And long before Max Wanaker was president of Atlantica Airlines, he was the wealthy benefactor who took her off the streets. Her driving ambition put her at the top of her class at Stanford, but her tuition, a highpowered career head start, and a new life came courtesy of Max, who knew a good bet when he saw it. Max took his angel far with a devil of a deal -- now, he's calling in the debt.
Three years ago, on its approach to Miami International, Atlantica Flight 640 crashed, claiming hundreds of lives and sparking a multimillion-dollar legal battle that is about to come before the Supreme Court. The swing vote belongs to Sam Truitt, and Max is depending on Lisa's expertise in the art of persuasion to save Atlantica. Lisa knows there's only one way to get Justice Truitt's vote: put aside her passion for justice and get into Truitt's life, into his head -- and into his bed.
But Lisa's obligation to Max is about to be overruled by a raw desire for Sam Truitt....One of the nation's most powerful men, Justice Truitt is also just a man -- with a failing marriage and a sharp, sexy law clerk succeeding in winning him over. Not knowing whom to trust as he steps into the minefield of the Atlantica case, he puts his career and his life on the line to strip away layers of corruption and violence outside the system -- and within. For even among his fellow Justices -- as tangled and deadly as nine scorpions in a bottle -- Truitt may find the deadly sting of malevolence at the highest levels of Law.
In the Machiavellian maze of political intrigue and personal betrayal that is the Supreme Court, Lisa Fremont and Sam Truitt could make one hell of a legal team. But inside the hidden sanctums of the halls of justice, there's only one rule to live by: stay one step ahead of those who live by no law at all.
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评分我最近读完了一本让我惊艳的作品,它的叙事风格独树一帜,仿佛是将观众带入了一个错综复杂的迷宫。作者没有选择按部就班地讲述一个线性故事,而是通过碎片化的视角、跳跃的时间线以及大量的留白,构建了一个充满悬念和解读空间的世界。初读时,我常常感到一丝迷茫,仿佛置身于浓雾之中,只能捕捉到零星的线索。然而,正是这种“不确定性”极大地激发了我的探索欲。我开始主动地去联系那些看似无关的细节,去拼凑那些散落在各处的拼图。每当我似乎找到了一个答案,作者又会巧妙地抛出新的谜团,让我不得不重新审视之前的一切。这种体验非常像在解开一个古老的谜题,每一步都充满了挑战,但也因此每一次的“顿悟”都显得格外珍贵和令人满足。这种叙事方式需要读者投入相当大的精力去思考和推理,但回报是丰厚的,它提供了一种前所未有的沉浸式阅读体验,让读者真正成为故事的一部分,而不是被动地接受信息。
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评分我最喜欢这本书的一点是,它给了我一种全新的视角去理解一些我一直习以为常的事物。故事的展开,就像是在剥洋葱,一层一层地揭开真相的面纱,而每一次的剥离,都带来了意想不到的震撼。作者的构思非常巧妙,他能够将看似无关的元素巧妙地联系起来,构建出一个庞大而严谨的逻辑体系。我原本以为自己已经洞悉了一切,但随着故事的推进,我才发现自己之前的判断是多么的浅薄。这种“颠覆”感,让我感到既意外又兴奋。它迫使我去挑战固有的思维模式,去质疑自己一直以来所相信的东西。更重要的是,这种对真相的不断追寻,以及在追寻过程中所经历的困惑与顿悟,本身就构成了一种极具吸引力的体验。这本书就像一场智力上的冒险,让我在享受阅读的乐趣的同时,也得到了思想上的洗礼和升华。它让我明白,有些事情,只有当你愿意放下 preconceived notions,以一种开放的心态去审视时,才能看到它们真正的模样。
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