Absolute Power By David Baldacci

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The book read/movie watched is titled Absolute Power. It was originally written by David Baldacci. Later, it was adopted by Oscar-winning-screen-writer William Goldman, producing it into a movie by Castle Rock Entertainment.
The plot will keep you wondering what is about to happen next throughout the entire story. One of the wealthiest men in the world is who the story revolved around. He witnessed the killing of his young wife. The rich man saw all of this through a mirror of the bedroom closet. His wife was attempting to break loose of two secret service agents, as the nation’s chief executive was attempting sexual moves upon her. Luther Whitney was an experienced burglar, and his purpose of breaking into the billionaires house, was to
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He made Luther seem guilty of the crime as he had history of being a thief. Luther wanted to get out of the United States until he spotted the President on tv. Frank the detective, investigated Luther’s home for clues. This was done with the help of Luther’s daughter whose name is Kate. They figured out that Luther had been creeping on her for quite some time. For whatever reason, Kate wanted to prove her dad was guilty, therefore she was agreeing to do anything for that to happen. Her occupation consisted of being a prosecutor so that is a little easier to do than the average person. There were two different snipers that were individually attempting to kill Luther upon meeting his daughter. They each were going to shoot him. At that meeting with his daughter, he explained to her precisely how Christy was killed, including who did it. Both of the sniper-man missed their shots at Luther. He was smart enough to wear a cop uniform under his …show more content…
In the back of President Richmond’s mind, he knew Kate had known the truth of it all. He chose to have her killed. As soon as Luther finds out that the Secret Service had got surveillance of Kate, he rushed to Washington D.C. He knew he needed to save her and it had to be fast. He got there just a tad too late, Collin pushed her and her car off of a cliff. This didn’t quite do the trick to killing her. Collin then met her at the hospital with a syringe full of poison. Luther was there to greet Collin with a syringe and stabbed it into his neck. Collin begged to be okay but it didn’t work. He died himself. It turned out that the whole reason Christy stated home that night was because she was not feeling well. Luther presented Walter with the letter-opener which his wife had made into a weapon to stab with. It had Richmond’s blood and fingerprints all over it. Luther then put the vehicle in park, and tells Walter to get out in front of the White House. Walter made is clear that he had a forever love for Christy. Somehow, Walter managed to get through security and entered into the Oval Office. News came that Burton had committed suicide and everything he left behind was enough evidence to arrest Russel for

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