Rule of Law by Randy Singer

Book description:

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?

My review:

   Randy Singer has long been a favorite author of mine, and is better than the better known John Grisham, who writes the same type of books on the secular market.

 Although fiction, the book deals with a lot of issues that are relative to today. It wasn't long ago that we had a president and other government officials in a similar situation that the fictional president and other officials were dealing with in this novel.

  Slight spoiler alert: I was a bit bummed out at some deaths early on in the book, but I did pretty much see it coming from the first chapters and description of the book. It took me a while to get past that disappointment, but it was still a great book. It was very well written, and Singer's knowledge of both courtroom and law procedure and world events come through loud and clear.

 The book had a lot of unpredictable moments, and I had a hard time guessing what would happen next and how judges were going to rule. I liked the characters and plot, and it was easy to get caught up in the story, especially since it is so relative to current events.

 I was very impressed with how Singer portrayed Navy Seals, and came away with an even greater appreciation for them and our military in general.

 I was bothered by the use of the word "bastards". Tyndale has been one publisher that has been pretty careful about language, and though there are much worse words out there in secular fiction, I felt inserting that one in a Christian novel was unnecessary.

 The book comes in at 460 pages, and is a wild ride through the courtrooms of America, the prisons of the middle east, and other areas in Muslim countries. Singer has again penned a great legal thriller that is definitely worth reading, and I enjoyed it a lot.

 I was given a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

About the author:

Randy Singer is a critically acclaimed, award-winning author and veteran trial attorney. He has penned more than 10 legal thrillers and was recently a finalist with John Grisham and Michael Connelly for the inaugural Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal. Randy runs his own law practice and has been named to Virginia Business magazine's select list of "Legal Elite" litigation attorneys. In addition to his law practice and writing, Randy serves as teaching pastor for Trinity Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He calls it his "Jekyll and Hyde thing"---part lawyer, part pastor. He also teaches classes in advocacy and civil litigation at Regent Law School and, through his church, is involved with ministry opportunities in India. He and his wife, Rhonda, live in Virginia Beach. They have two grown children. Visit his website at www.randysinger.net.

Rule of Law is available from Tyndale Publishing.

Thanks to Litfuse Publicity for the review copy.