Rule of Law by Randy Singer

 

What did the president know? And when did she know it?

For the members of SEAL Team Six, it was a rare mission ordered by the president, monitored in real time from the Situation Room. The Houthi rebels in Yemen had captured an American journalist and a member of the Saudi royal family. Their executions were scheduled for Easter Sunday. The SEAL team would break them out.

But when the mission results in spectacular failure, the finger-pointing goes all the way to the top.

Did the president play political games with the lives of U.S. service members?

Paige Chambers, a determined young lawyer, has a very personal reason for wanting to know the answer. The case she files will polarize the nation and test the resiliency of the Constitution. The stakes are huge, the alliances shaky, and she will be left to wonder if the saying on the Supreme Court building still holds true.

Equal justice under law.

It makes a nice motto. But will it work when one of the most powerful people on the planet is also a defendant?

I am a huge fan of Randy Singer's legal fiction, and I was excited to hear about Rule of Law's release and then to read it. Once I read Rule of Law, I was not disappointed in it per-se, but it was not my favorite of his novels. However, I thought the message was gripping and an accurate representation of how much power parts of the U.S. government today have and the inherent danger in that unchecked power. The plot was interesting and contained unexpected plot twists, but sometimes was a little scattered and jumped from character to character without leaving time for me to catch up. There was also less actual legal scenes in this novel compared to some of his other works, but they were still compelling scenes. The story seemed to drag a little for me at times, but when everything was finally pulled back together, it made for a powerful and convicting conclusion. I thought the themes were well written and represented in this novel, and I hope they cause people to question the power that some of our government agencies have both here and abroad. I liked Paige as a character as well, and I sympathized with her as she worked to understand her convictions, her faith, and her grief. Overall, I did enjoy this novel and I greatly appreciate its message. I received this novel from Litfuse Publicity Group in exchange for an honest review.