Absolute Power was the first book published by David Baldacci and is a standalone novel.
This book was first released on June 16, 1996 and was subsequently made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman.
Absolute Power book description
In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping a burglar behind a secret wall.
Then the passion turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the president of the United States.
Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Alan Richmond is the charming U.S. president with the power to commit any crime.
And Jack Graham is the young attorney caught in a vortex between absolute truth and… ABSOLUTE POWER
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