Protect and Defend
Kerry Kilcannon: Book #2
- By: Richard North Patterson
- Narrated by: Patricia Kalember
- Length: 20 hours 43 minutes
Description
A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson- a major departure, and that confirms his place among the most important popular novelists at work today.
A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case- a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents- will come before the court. And the Senate majority leader is determined to thwart the president's nomination for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the personal.
As these stories intertwine, building in complexity and suspense, Patterson gives us the resounding clash of competing ambitions between the president and the majority leader; the equally momentous collision of science and culture in the courtroom; and, in an unprecedented novelistic depiction of the legal process from the perspective of the judge rather than the lawyers, a revelation of both how the judicial system works and how it intersects with politics, for better or for worse.
PROTECT AND DEFEND is a triumph- the definitive novel of politics and law at the dawn of the 21st century.
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Kerry Kilcannon Series

No Safe Place - Abridged
By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: Patricia Kalember
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying.
Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that... Read more »

No Safe Place
By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In his first book since the national best-seller Silent Witness, Richard North Patterson uses his mastery of characterization and suspense to give us a story of startling realism and originality--an extraordinary novel of presidential politics.
In the year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick... Read more »

Protect and Defend
By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: Patricia Kalember
Length: 20 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson- a major departure, and that confirms his place among the most important popular novelists at work today.
A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose... Read more »

Protect and Defend - Abridged
By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: Patricia Kalember
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson- a major departure, and that confirms his place among the most important popular novelists at work today.
A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose... Read more »

Balance of Power
By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: Patricia Kalember
Length: 23 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard North Patterson’s masterful portrayals of law and politics at the apex of power have made him one of our most important writers of popular fiction. Combining a compelling narrative, exhaustive research, and a sophisticated grasp of contemporary society, his bestselling novels bring explosive social problems to vivid life through... Read more »
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Balance of Power - Abridged
By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: Patricia Kalember
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Richard North Patterson’s masterful portrayals of law and politics at the apex of power have made him one of our most important writers of popular fiction. Combining a compelling narrative, exhaustive research, and a sophisticated grasp of contemporary society, his bestselling novels bring explosive social problems to vivid life through... Read more »
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