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Rogue justice, Stacey Abrams

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Rogue justice

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Stacey Abrams

Avery Keene, 2

"Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy in <i>While Justice Sleeps</i>. But as the sparks of congressional hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before she died. Desperate to find out what happened, he gives Avery a file, a burner phone, and a fearful warning that there are highly dangerous people involved. A shocking murder leads Avery to a list of names -- all federal judges -- and, alarmingly, all judges on the FISA Court (the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court), also known as America's "secret court." It is this body that grants permission to the government to wiretap Americans or spy on corporations suspected of terrorism. As Avery digs deeper, she begins to see a frightening pattern -- and she worries that something far more sinister may be unfolding inside the nation's third branch of government. With lives at stake, Avery must race the clock, and an unexpected enemy, to find the answer." --Container

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