Protect and defend
By: Richard North Patterson.
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9780345404794
Subjects: Judges -- Selection and appointment -- Fiction.; Abortion -- Law and legislation -- Fiction.; Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.; Women judges -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court drops dead following the inauguration, President Kerry Kilcannon selects as a replacement Judge Caroline Masters, a woman who hides a secret that could affect her ruling on a controversial case.