Rule of Law by Randy Singer

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (September 5, 2017)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1496418166
• ISBN-13: 978-1496418166

About the Book:

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 thoughts:

How can I tell everything in my heart right now?  I've always had the highest respect for our military and their families.  But, after turning the final page of Rule of Law, I am truly in awe.  Too often we take their sacrifice lightly, and it's too easy to forget the families of those who serve.

Randy Singer is a phenomenal writer.  His legal career gives every novel an authentic voice, and he has the unique ability to write about the legal system in our country and make it easy to understand without diminishing the real life aspect of conducting an investigation, going to trial, and the inner workings of a law office.

Rule of Law is a novel for our time.  Singer raises the singular and most necessary question for today's reader: is anyone permitted to be above the law, even if that someone holds the highest office in our country?

To find the answer to that question, you'll have to read the book.

Randy Singer also has that intangible something that causes the characters to come alive from the moment you meet them.  Patrick, Beef, and the entire cast of characters in Rule of Law are memorable and so real you might find yourself praying for them!

If you only read one novel this year, please make it Rule of Law.  I honestly believe that this was the story Singer was born to write.  And the novel's release is both timely and enlightening.  I thoroughly enjoyed Rule of Law, and I believe you'll enjoy it too.  I'm giving this one my "For Such a Time" stamp of approval.

Until the next page turns,

Deena