The Blue Folio
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Publisher Description
Twenty-Two years after the Second Constitution pacified the anger of the American people, Bill Waverly, the president's attorney, finds himself at the center of a crisis that threatens the president's job, her life and the new people-centric government.
Torn between protecting the president and his deeply buried convictions, Bill fails to see the danger to his own life from the shadowy organization that helped him propel the president into the White House. Twisted conspiracies intertwined between the fight for a new America and the fight to save the president's life twenty-two years later reveal shocking truths. But is it too late to save the president's life and the soul of a nation?
Winner of the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards for Political Thriller
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
What if the American public rebels at business as usual in Washington, D.C.? That's the interesting question at the heart of McMahon's so-so near-future political thriller. The narrative alternates between 2059, when President Beth Roche-Suarez faces a treason charge, and 2037, when delegates gather in Philadelphia to draft an entirely new constitution. The Second Constitutional Convention creates a provision that makes it an act of high treason for presidents to veto legislation they have previously supported. During her campaign for president, Roche-Suarez advocated for the South American Free Trade Act. Now she's against it, and the penalty is death if she's convicted. McMahon doesn't make that premise more palatable with plausible supporting details. In 2059, for example, federal judges and the U.S. attorney general are elected, putting those officials, who are supposed to be nonpartisan, directly into the political fray. Even those disgusted with governmental gridlock may find the central concept too over the top. (BookLife)
