Used. Hardcover. When newly inaugurated President Kerry Kilcannon nominates a brilliant female judge to lead the Supreme Court, he unwittingly lights a slow-burning fuse under Washington's most volatile powder keg. As a fiercely contested abortion rights case barrels toward her bench, the confirmation battle transforms into political trench warfare where no one’s secrets are safe. Patterson delivers a razor-sharp legal thriller that brilliantly interrogates the messy intersection of personal morality and public law. Grab this one if you like your political drama served with plenty of high-stakes suspense and genuine intellectual grit.