![]() While the book does contain an authoritarian president who says comical things like ‘none of the damned Democrats on Capitol Hill will be able to stop me’, it is not a form of post-Trump therapy. I thought the heroine might be a charismatic Georgia Democrat called Lacey A. ![]() I thought that he might be in league with the dark forces of the Alt-White and their well-groomed Nazi leader Richard Penser. What do I mean by ‘pandering’? Well, I would have bet good money that the book would contain a President Bonald Crump with Cheeto-colored skin and a penchant for being peed on by Russian prostitutes. Nor could anyone claim that the book panders too much to liberal readers. She has written several romance novels under a pen name and tells us in a charming author’s note that While Justice Sleeps developed over a ‘12-year journey’ that she ‘really enjoyed’. (For that, look forward to my editors asking me to review Hillary Clinton’s forthcoming novel State of Terror.) Abrams loves to write. This is not some kind of botched cash-in. Still, for all the mean things you could say about Stacey Abrams’s new legal thriller While Justice Sleeps, you could say some kind things as well, the foremost being that it is not cynical. ![]() Expectations are low - or high depending on your appetite for other people’s failure. A politician publishing a novel is a bit like the lead singer of a rock band declaring that not only are they going to release a solo album but it is going to express their newfound interest in electronica. ![]()
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