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Title: Executive Privilege
by Jay Brandon
ISBN: 0-8125-7545-8
Publisher: Tor Books
Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $6.99
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Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)

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Rating: 4
Summary: Realities of Modern Life
Comment: Our Presidential roots suggests that it is entirely possible that a Presidential divorce would be out of the question given our high expectations of the office, its perks, and the dynamics under which it operates - while in office, as well as beyond it. However, given the nature of today's world, and the number of divorces that afflict the majority of the population, it is certainly an interesting concept to grapple with in the event it was ever a privilege at that executive level. In reviewing the concept, I had difficulty confining it to only future Presidents and was reminded of the difficulties other Presidential wives encountered, and what might have prompted a desire for divorce. For example, Jacqueline Kennedy might have been in such a situation had her husband not been assassinated prematurely. The complications of any divorce are difficult but must be nearly intolerable in such a prominent arena, thereby, encouraging the simplicity of dalliances rather than full blown affairs that might culminate in divorce for either party. It's obviously of some merit that the author decided to explore this unique, and conceivably legitimate topic since our Presidents are not usually permitted the luxury of being the human beings they might be without the pomp and circumstances that accompanies the office, sadly. The very tall order of the Presidential role does not easily lend itself to the rigors of daily life and freedom of relationships that might be formed outside of the "box," for the President or a First Lady. Perhaps, there is something to consider about placing older, and well established persons in the office, unlikely to encounter the typical stresses that often befall younger persons (whose hormones might still be active enough to pose such problems) where the good of the nation is of the utmost importance, or realize that Presidents do require a measure of privacy to prevent being so honor bound to be mounted upon the pedestal of stone so that they must endure such unearthly existences. We rarely reflect upon the fact that everyone appreciates freedom as well as privacy and safety - including Presidents and First Ladies.

Rating: 4
Summary: At Last!
Comment: At Last! A book in which the President gets what is coming to him. The ending was a little surprising, and I could not help but have a smile on my face wondering what was going on in the President's mind.

This book is definitely a very good read.

Rating: 4
Summary: Preposterous! But fun
Comment: Young San Antonio attorney David Owens wins a big divorce case and hopes it will attract some new business, though his wildest dreams didn't feature his next client, the First Lady - that's right, the wife of the President - who wants a divorce for the sake of her precocious young son.

Even Owens finds this preposterous and when his office is searched by sinister Secret Service agents who say the woman was an imposter, he's inclined to accept it. Until he gets a mysterious, plaintive email message, which brings him to Washington and into the White House. Intriguing? Outlandish? It gets better. Owens and a female Secret Service agent outwit various guards and technology to spirit the First Lady and her son out of captivity and off on a cross-country road trip. There's even a heavy-handed villain - a megalomaniac billionaire technology tycoon (a Darth Vader version of Bill Gates) with a direct line to the president, who he all but handed into office. Ridiculous? Certainly. But Jay Brandon keeps it all moving; juggling action, plot lines and characters for a rousing, suspension-of-disbelief entertainment.

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