I just read a great book that I wanted to let you know about. It is called
Absolute Power and the author is David Badacci. It is a political thriller
and it is a real page-turner. I'm not giving anything away because this
happens in the first chapter but the main plot concerns the following
event--a career thief has planned a heist at a large mansion while the
owners are out of town. He has broken into the walk-in closet/vault in the
master bedroom when he hears voices. He closes himself in and shortly
thereafter the lights in the bedroom go on. He discovers that the full
length mirror on the door between the two is actually a one-way mirror that
allows him to see everything that is happening. He is astonished to see
that the woman of the house has returned with the president of the U.S. for
a quickie! The president is into kinky sex and he wants to choke her while
they are "doing it". She does not like it and asks him to stop. He refuses
and while trying to fight him off she grabs a letter opener from her
nightstand and stabs him in the shoulder. He screams and as 2 secret
service agents burst into the room she is just about to stab him in the
chest so they shoot her dead. All involved decide to cover up the
president's involvement so they clean the place up and remove all evidence.
They leave the house and the thief makes his escape out the window.
However, they remember one thing they neglected and come back just in time
to realize there was a witness. They pursue him but he get away. The rest
of the book details everything they go through to keep the crime covered up.
This book is the best one I've read in years and I hope they make a movie
out of it but they probably couldn't do it justice. The story has some evil
characters and some very moral ones and several that are somewhere in
between the two. You should definately put this one on your list!
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