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Supreme Justice: A Novel of Suspense Review

Although it is not a believable story, Phillip Margolin's fictional novel is a fast paced easy to read and an enjoyable summer read with numerous interesting yet some undeveloped characters and a couple fun twisting plots.

Set in modern day Oregon, Sara Woodruff is tried twice charged for murdering John Finley her former boyfriend who turned out to be alive while she was on death row, and turns up murdered with Sara being charged again.

Murder, suspense, blackmail, deceit, clandestine operatives--this book has it all. People in high places are not all they appear to be, yet some are more.

I enjoyed the many surprises the author weaved through the various plots as he moved back and forth through five years between 2006 and 2011 and kept this reader guessing.

This was a fun and quick read and leaves me wanting to read more Phillip Margolin books.

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Supreme Justice: A Novel of Suspense Overview

New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin returns to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., with an exciting thriller about a ghost ship and the President's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sarah Woodruff, on death row in Oregon for murdering her lover, John Finley, has appealed her case to the Supreme Court just when a prominent justice resigns, leaving a vacancy.

Then, for no apparent reason, another justice is mysteriously attacked. Dana Cutler—one of the heroes from Margolin's bestselling Executive Privilege—is quietly called in to investigate. She looks for links between the Woodruff appeal and the ominous incidents in the justices' chambers, which eventually lead her to a shoot-out that took place years ago on a small freighter docked upriver in Shelby, Oregon, containing a dead crew and illegal drugs. The only survivor on board? John Finley.

With the help of Brad Miller and Keith Evans, Dana uncovers a plot by a rogue element in the American intelligence community involving the president's nominee to the Supreme Court, and soon the trio is thrown back into the grips of a deadly, executive danger.

With nonstop action, Supreme Justice picks up where Executive Privilege left off, putting readers right back where they were—on the edge of their seats.

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Customer Reviews

Pelican Brief On Steroids - Mae Adamson - Los Angeles, CA USA
I think I have read all of Phillip Margolin's books and I would call myself a fan of his. I look at his books as the literary equivalent of candy and he consistently does a solid job of writing fast-paced, legal thrillers. Supreme Justice is a follow-up to Executive Privilege and contains many of the same characters.

This book follows the Margolin playbook pretty well all the way through. I don't consider his books to be sticklers for realism but this book struck me as particuarly preposterous, with multiple attempts on the life of a Supreme Court Justice, a president being bribed to name a replacement Justice (and where did that scene come from anyways? just what evidence does the bad guy have on the current president that would make her do whatever he wants?) and impostor assassins placed in some of the most important positions of our country's legal system (could the police really be fooled by armed men calling themselves representatives from Homeland Security just because they say so?).

Despite my criticism, I have to admit I still enjoyed the book. To call it fast-paced would be an understatement. The book moves at breakneck speed and I could not wait to get to the end to see how it would all play out. With all that being said, how much is there really to complain about?

The Continuing Decline of Margolin - Matthew Erwin - Virginia
Phillip Margolin has always been one of those guys that has played along the edges of being a major writer. In the end, he has generally wound up being the book you pick up in the airport for half price. He has had some major high points such as "Gone, but not Forgotten." Sadly Supreme Justice falls solidly into his low point category.

Fresh off the takedown of a crooked President and his serial killing wife in "Executive Privledge," Brad Miller and his new fiancee Ginny Striker go to DC in order to follow new job opportunities.

Brad works clerks for a Supreme Court Justice as his reward for investigative work in the last book. Ginny starts working at a law firm that conviently holds the major bad guys and the answers to some of the tepid questions the book poses.

By painful coincedence, it is Brad's Justice that causes a riff in the court over a cert case of a woman on death row. She is nearly murdered by an assassin but is saved by, surprise, Brad Miller. So launches the story. Also appearing are Dana Cutler, the PI from the first book and Keith Evans from the FBI. I can buy the setup for Executive Privledge happening in that book, but to get wrapped up in another major conspiracy involving CIA directors and Justices just a few months later? That is stretching it. What is the next book, Miller and Striker take down the Speaker of the House and the Sec. State?

The book chops back and forth between 2012 (the book's present) and 2006 to the murder of a possible drug dealer/intelligence agent by a cop. Sadly, the book telegraphs the major plot points of flashbacks, so they become almost pointless.

It is a book hampered by bad writing. In one scene our FBI man mentions that the FBI can solve any case but can't figure out why there isn't anything good on TV. Really, that 30 year old joke is recycled. Maybe it simply padding as the book is a thin volume already, crashing in around 300 pages with Pattersonesqe chapter sizes and font size. The whole book has the feeling of a novel that was not born out of any good idea, but rather a manuscript deadline.

It is also predictable. As each character is introduced you can pretty much guess what they are going to be. You are the red herring, you are the real killer, you will end up dead. Etc. Etc.

Don't get me wrong, it is not an offensively bad book, but it is well below par. Hopefully Margolin can return to form in future books. But the trio of Miller, Striker and Cutler are certainly not strong enough to carry a third book.

Margolin Dos it again - Gamer -
Like all of his books this one wasa fun read with a great mystery and beleivable plot. If you read other books by Margolin you will enjoy this one. I hadn't read his books in some time and had forgotten how good they were.

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