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By:  Max Allen Collins 

ASIN: B00GM54GGQ

Publisher:   Thomas & Mercer

Publication Date: 7/1/2014 

Format:  Audio

My Rating:  3 Stars

Supreme Justice by Max Allan Collins (like the last name), is a political thriller, cover-up for murder, with fast paced action. An ex-Secret Service agent Reeder is paired with FBI Agent Rogers to solve a shocking series of murders ever to hit our nation's capital. Someone is killing off conservative Supreme Court Justices.

Set a decade in the future, two masked gunmen invade the Verdict Chophouse, a Washington, D.C., restaurant, where Supreme Court Associate Justice Henry Venter, who led the successful effort to overturn Roe v. Wade under President Gregory Watson Bennett (Obama’s Republican successor), and other top government officials are eating unguarded.

One of the robbers shoots Venter, after the judge makes a sudden move. When former Secret Service agent Joseph Reeder, (nicknamed "Peep" for his unparalleled skills at reading body language) who took a bullet for Bennett, views a video of the murder, he concludes that Venter was the target all along in what was meant to look like a robbery gone wrong.

Reeder, now owns a private security company, is called in to help and joins a task force investigating the crime. FBI agent Patti Rogers finds herself paired with the unpopular former agent on a task force investigating the killing of Supreme Court Justice Henry Venter.

Reeder's murder theory is dismissed until another incident occurs, and now Reeder wonders if someone is targeting conservative justices, trying to change the direction of the Supreme Court after they have overturned Roe v Wade and made abortion illegal.

I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Dan John Miller, with a pleasant performance voice-my first book by Collins. More in the category of light and engaging, not big on character development; and without the wow page-turner suspense factor.