A sharp letter opener and a diamond necklace are essential props in this mayhem, which takes place in a baronial-looking boudoir.

The First Lady is in Asia helping the poor.Īlone with his conquest, the President, played by Gene Hackman, starts slapping her around. Her husband, an elderly philanthropist who helped to get the President elected, is conveniently in Barbados. A beautiful young trophy wife is about to go to bed with her husband's friend, who happens to be President of the United States. Eastwood's Luther watches a tryst turn deadly. Wearing his best look of stony outrage, Mr. What he glimpses in an adjoining bedroom is really something to squint about. But just as Luther is in the midst of raiding a walk-in vault filled with loot, the heist is interrupted and Luther is trapped behind a one-way mirror. Meanwhile, lurking at the novel’s center like a venomous spider is the sociopathic president.Luther Whitney, the courtly old burglar played by Clint Eastwood in his new thriller, ''Absolute Power,'' has a mansion to rob. Embroidering the narrative through assorted plot whorls are the hero’s broken romance his conflict over selling out for financial success the prosecutor’s confused love-hate for her burglar father the relentless investigation by a northern Virginia career cop the dilemma of government agents trapped in a moral catch-22 the amoral ambitions of a sexy White House Chief of Staff and the old burglar’s determination to bring down the ruthless president. Meanwhile, Jack Graham, once a public defender and now a high-powered corporate attorney, gets drawn into the case because the on-the-lam burglar just happens to be the father of his former financee, a crusading Virginia prosecutor. Running for his life, but not before he picks up a bloodstained letter opener that puts the president at the scene of the crime, the burglar becomes the target of a clandestine manhunt orchestrated by leading members of the executive branch. You can read this before Absolute Power PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world’s richest men, only to witness, through a one-way mirror, two Secret Service agents kill the billionaire’s trampy young wife as she tries to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation’s chief executive. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Absolute Power written by David Baldacci which was published in.

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