As sitting US President Madeline Wright prepares for re-election, she has a problem. She's got a major situation in California that could ruin her chances, forcing POTUS to juggle and call in some favours, at least until she wins once again in November. She has the dedication, and as long as nothing else stands in her way, she is a shoe-in to keep the Oval Office. That is, until her husband is the prime suspect in a murder from seventeen years ago.

Two stunning investigative journalists dig up a story while they are writing about the First Gentleman, connected to a missing cheerleader when Cole Wright was a professional football player. He denies having anything to do with it, but people are talking and the puzzle pieces are coming together with alarming speed. A buried body, with evidence next to the supposed grave, camera footage from a store in the area, and a rule about dating that could have ended Cole's career. All the evidence piles up and soon he's being arrested and dragged into court to face charges.

While the case unfolds in open court, POTUS tries to stay calm and support her husband. Her election might be in some doubt now, but family has to come first, right? Struggling to make sense of the charges levied against him, Cole Wright will have to fight like never before if he wants to see the light of day and ensure he does not tank his wife's future as well.

Anyone who loves collaborations of Bill Clinton and James Patterson as well as all political thrillers.

The parts of the novel in which were set in the court.

That I was able to figure out halfway through this book, the probable killer and ending.

Bill Clinton and James Patterson

It was not the best of the other Bill Clinton and James Patterson's other novels.

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