Tenth Justice

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The young attorneys who clerk for Supreme Court justices wield extraordinary power--privy to sensitive material that could prove disastrous in unscrupulous hands, making decisions that could change lives... or destroy them. They are...

THE TENTH JUSTICE

Landing a prestigious position as a Supreme Court clerk fresh out of Yale Law, Ben Addison is on the ultrafast track to success--until he inadvertently shares a classified secret with the wrong listener. And now the anonymous blackmailer who made a killing with Ben's information is demanding more. Guilty of a criminal act, his golden future suddenly in jeopardy, Ben turns for help to his roommates--three close friends from childhood, each strategically placed near the seats of Washington power--and to his beautiful, whip-smart fellow clerk, Lisa Schulman. But trust is a dangerous commodity in the nation's capital. And when lives, careers, and power are at stake, loyalties can shatter like glass... and betrayals can be lethal.