Phillip Margolin is a great thriller writer. He lives in Portland, Oregon and usually his stories takes place there. Executive Privilege too is partly set in Oregon.
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However, the assignment turns into something more when Cutler follows the student to a wooded cabin and observes her in the bedroom with President Farrington. She takes some photographs, as the mission requires. Then she is detected by the Secret Service men guarding the President, and has to disappear. The next morning the woman’s mutilated body is discovered, and Cutler is suddenly a suspect.
Following this, Cutler finds herself targeted and has to run for her life.
At the same time, a young attorney, Brad Miller, is assigned a pro bono case for a death row appeal involving a serial killer. It quickly becomes clear that the serial killer is not responsible for one of the killings he has been charged with. Miller stumbles on wrongdoing in high places.
And at about the same time, the FBI team investigating a serial killer known as the D.C. Ripper finds that his supposedly latest victim was one of Farrington’s mistresses. And the autopsy makes it likely that she was not murdered by D.C. Ripper, but by some copycat or somebody seeking to blame the murder on the serial killer.
When the story lines collide there is plenty of buzz in this well plotted and suspenseful thriller. It is
an enjoyable and entertaining read, fast paced with great characters and a very credible, entertaining plot. Executive Privilege is probably not Phillip Margolin’s best book, but it is still very good.
You may also want to have a look at Margolin’s latest: Fugitive: A Novel
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