Decision

A gripping novel about the deterioration of the criminal justice system and the mysterious powerful body at its core-the Supreme Court of the United States. Earle Holgren-murderer terrorist lost soul-is the center of a vortex that sweeps up a fascinating cast of characters in their ambitions politics honor and scandal. From the eight Justices of the Supreme Court to the Attorney General of South Carolina who sees a compelling controversial trial as an opportunity for demagoguery that might pave his path to the White House to the idealistic defense lawyer who seeks to save a man she knows to be a psycopathic killer to a driven Washington journalist in love with one of the Justices whose marriage is crumbling and other Justices with their own agendas vendettas and secrets Decision is a sweeping tale that begins at a nuclear power plant in South Carolina works its way through the courts of that state and finally to the halls of the Supreme Court. From Allen Drury the master of spellbinding political fiction author of Advise and Consent