Absolute Power (novel)

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Absolute Power
Author David Baldacci
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Crime novel
Publisher Warner Books
Publication date November 1, 1996
Media type Print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages 505 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-446-60358-9 (first edition, hardback)

Absolute Power is a 1996 book by David Baldacci, which was made into a 1997 film starring Clint Eastwood.

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Luther Whitney, a man in his late 60s, is a well experienced burglar, who specializes in burglarizing the wealthy. On the night of his planned last heist ever, something went wrong. In the midst of burglarizing the house, he entered a vault that would allow him to see everything that was going on in the bedroom by way of a one-way mirror. While the lady of the house returned with a companion, the President of the United States, he was trapped inside and witnessed two Secret Service agents killing the billionaire's trampy young wife as she tried to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation's chief executive. That made Whitney the target of the nation's executive.

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