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While Justice Sleeps: A Novel door Stacey…
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While Justice Sleeps: A Novel (editie 2021)

door Stacey Abrams (Auteur)

Reeksen: Avery Keene (1)

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps is a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Brilliant and mesmerizing. Abrams follows in Dan Brownâ??s footprint with this masterfully plotted thriller that unfolds like the ultimate chess matchâ??bold move to bolder move with lives hanging in the balance."â??Lisa Gardner 
 
"Stacey Abrams is a true novelist, and While Justice Sleeps is a first-class legal thriller, favorably compared to many of the best, starting with The Pelican Brief, which it brings to mindItâ??s fast-paced and full of surprisesâ??a terrific read."â??Scott Turow
Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life togetherâ??excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynnâ??the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile casesâ??has slipped into a coma, Averyâ??s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal guardian and power of attorney. Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery finds that Justice Wynn had been secretly researching one of the most controversial cases before the courtâ??a proposed merger between an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, which promises to unleash breathtaking results in the medical field. She also discovers that Wynn suspected a dangerously related conspiracy that infiltrates the highest power corridors of Washington.
 
As political wrangling ensues in Washington to potentially replace the ailing judge whose life and survival Avery controls, she begins to unravel a carefully constructed, chesslike sequence of clues left behind by Wynn. She comes to see that Wynn had a much more personal stake in the controversial case and realizes his complex puzzle will lead her directly into harmâ??s way in order to find the truth. While Justice Sleeps is a cunningly crafted, sophisticated novel, layered with myriad twists and a vibrant cast of characters. Drawing on her astute inside knowledge of the court and political landscape, Stacey Abrams shows herself to be not only a force for good in politics and voter fairness but also a major new talent in suspense fiction.
With an audio-exclusive Original Introduction
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Titel:While Justice Sleeps: A Novel
Auteurs:Stacey Abrams (Auteur)
Info:Doubleday (2021), 384 pages
Verzamelingen:Jouw bibliotheek
Waardering:**1/2
Trefwoorden:fiction, government, thriller, supreme court

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I think Stacey Abrams is amazing so OF COURSE I bought her new novel. Once the plot got set up and things started moving I enjoyed this but it took me longer than I’d have liked to find my footing in the story. It’s convoluted and hard to figure out but that’s the whole point, right? Only one person l, our MC, could figure it out.

I think Abrams uses way too many adjectives and at times it was super distracting.

I got the impression she was setting up the reader to set Avery and her friends again in a future book but maybe not. ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
Fast-paced, smart legal thriller. Would love to read more books featuring Avery. ( )
  decaturmamaof2 | Nov 22, 2023 |
I don't normally read thrillers, political or otherwise, but I went out of my comfort zone to read this for a book club for September; I checked it out at my local library.

While Justice Sleeps engages in a relentless pace from the get-go as a Supreme Court justice with a genetic disease falls into a coma, leaving his stunned law clerk Avery holding both his power of attorney and a lot of clues to a greater conspiracy. Sometimes the twisty-turny plot lost me as it skipped between different points of view, but overall, it was enjoyable and thought-provoking. I know who Abrams as a political figure is but I hadn't read any of her fiction before; her writing here, often delving into tricky judicial matters, carries an air of competency. Her characters are complex, as are the ethics around them. While some of the big bad guys are on the right-wing side of politics (that's no spoiler, as it's quite clear early on), the figures of power on the left are not depicted as angels, either. I appreciated the nuance in those depictions. ( )
  ladycato | Aug 6, 2023 |
This is a gripping legal thriller that doesn't let you down. Just excellent. And disturbing. ( )
  geraldinefm | Jun 27, 2023 |
While Justice Sleeps: A Novel is an excellent believable thriller. There were no superheroes just the law of the United States of America and people who lost their focus of the right thing to do. The suspense started in the beginning and continued through the end of the book. Clearly the author knows the U.S. Constitutional law. Five stars were awarded to this book. This book is highly recommended. ( )
  lbswiener | Jun 11, 2023 |
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While Justice Sleeps is a thriller, an “airport novel” in the very best sense of the term—it’s fun, fast-paced, absurd, designed to be inhaled in the space of a single flight. It’s also a revealing window into its author’s political imagination—what she wants, what she believes, what she’d do in a position of power....In spite of the novel’s dramatic tone and deliberately absurd elements, While Justice Sleeps ultimately allows its characters little growth. The heroes emerge heroic, the villains are dragged away in infamy, and the political system that Justice Wynn describes as spiraling into “intellectual torpor” and “hubris and narcissism”—a political system crying out to be drowned in a “righteous flood”—remains unaltered. It’s striking that Avery has overcome so much adversity and reached the pinnacle of accomplishment for a new lawyer but has no clear ambitions beyond cashing in at a corporate law firm. After paying off her loans, what next?

toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkThe New Republic, Scott W. Stern (Jun 10, 2021)
 
“While Justice Sleeps” features a boatload of colorful characters, including a resentful wife, an estranged son, law associates, FBI and Homeland Security agents, media personalities, high-tech engineers, and a female chief justice.

As the stakes rise, and murderous villains lurk, readers come to understand that horrific moral and ethical boundaries have been crossed. The unfolding morality tale, “the labyrinthine game the law demanded,” plays out in the final fireworks scene at the Supreme Court. Abrams plays it to the hilt.
 
...explicitly partisan politics plays little role, and Abrams stints on judicial ideology. Still, her enterprise impresses on several counts: that she is willing to risk the jaundiced eye of readers unsympathetic to her public career; that she has the stuff to assay fiction in a new and challenging genre; and that amid an exceedingly busy life she cares enough about the form to undertake the demanding business of turning an idea into a novel. So the only fair question is not what she might have written, but whether she succeeds on the terms she set herself.... Readers searching for dimensional characters whose inner lives inform a consistently credible narrative won’t find them in this book; its climactic events, and the behaviors of the principals, require a particularly willful suspension of disbelief. Nor do Abrams’s corridors of power exude a sense of real-life verisimilitude — they, too, exist to serve her humming machine. But those desirous of perils and surprises will encounter them in abundance. On that score, Abrams has realized what surely was her chief ambition — not to enlighten, but to entertain.

 

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps is a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Brilliant and mesmerizing. Abrams follows in Dan Brownâ??s footprint with this masterfully plotted thriller that unfolds like the ultimate chess matchâ??bold move to bolder move with lives hanging in the balance."â??Lisa Gardner 
 
"Stacey Abrams is a true novelist, and While Justice Sleeps is a first-class legal thriller, favorably compared to many of the best, starting with The Pelican Brief, which it brings to mindItâ??s fast-paced and full of surprisesâ??a terrific read."â??Scott Turow
Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life togetherâ??excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynnâ??the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile casesâ??has slipped into a coma, Averyâ??s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal guardian and power of attorney. Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery finds that Justice Wynn had been secretly researching one of the most controversial cases before the courtâ??a proposed merger between an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, which promises to unleash breathtaking results in the medical field. She also discovers that Wynn suspected a dangerously related conspiracy that infiltrates the highest power corridors of Washington.
 
As political wrangling ensues in Washington to potentially replace the ailing judge whose life and survival Avery controls, she begins to unravel a carefully constructed, chesslike sequence of clues left behind by Wynn. She comes to see that Wynn had a much more personal stake in the controversial case and realizes his complex puzzle will lead her directly into harmâ??s way in order to find the truth. While Justice Sleeps is a cunningly crafted, sophisticated novel, layered with myriad twists and a vibrant cast of characters. Drawing on her astute inside knowledge of the court and political landscape, Stacey Abrams shows herself to be not only a force for good in politics and voter fairness but also a major new talent in suspense fiction.
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