Executive Privilege
Phillip Margolin. HarperAudio, $39.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-155583-1
What a concept: the President of the United States as a possible serial killer. And ace suspense writer Margolin pulls it off beautifully, with the help of narrator Jonathan Davis, who is the perfect choice to cool off a hot concept and make it human (as he did with Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash). Davis' fine third-person narration is matched by his performance as Dana Cutler, a beautiful and sharp D.C. private detective who is hired to follow a young college student who ends up dead after a secret meeting with president Charles Farrington. Davis also excels as an Oregon lawyer who is working on the Death Row appeal of a convicted killer. The inmate says he was framed for the murder of a teenager who, at the time of her death, worked for then-governor Farrington. A Harper hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 7).
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Reviewed on: 06/02/2008
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 368 pages - 978-0-06-123621-1
Mass Market Paperbound - 480 pages - 978-0-06-123622-8
Other - 480 pages - 978-0-06-179320-2
Paperback - 544 pages - 978-0-06-156273-0