To The Last Page

After a strenuous sex session in the Lincoln Room with Actress/Singer/International Celebrity Babatte Van Anka, the President returns to his wife’s bed and is found there dead the next morning by the Secret Service with the imprint of silver spitoon indented into his forehead. The First Lady, Elisabeth MacMann (known as Lady BethMac), has had a stormy relationship because of her husband's infidelities and was heard rowing with him on the night of his death. She is charged (somewhat improbably) with his murder and hires “Shameless” Boyce Baylor, the most notorious lawyer in America and the man she dumped 25 years earlier to marry Ken MacMann, to defend her in what will certainly become the “Trial of the Millennium”. Bam! That’s two chapters and 13 pages into the book - no messing around here. There is nothing fancy or clever about the writing style or the dialogue - it is effective, straightforward and to the point. There is nothing sophisticated either about the plot, which after h...