TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldacci,David
TI  - Absolute power
SN  - 0446519960 (hardcover)
AV  - PS3552.A446 E93 1996
U1  - 813/.54 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Warner Books
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Murder
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - lcsh
N2  - A burglar in the bedroom of a mansion has his work interrupted by the arrival of the mistress of the house with the president of the U.S. The couple have a fight and she is killed. The burglar flees, taking along a blood-stained letter opener as evidence, but is spotted by presidential bodyguards. The White House chief-of-staff, an ambitious woman, has him tracked and killed, but not before the burglar has told his story to a lawyer. The lawyer realizes he is next, but how to save oneself from the government? A first novel
ER  -