Any observer of politics knows that Abrams is a charismatic and talented former state legislator and voting rights activist who is likely to run for governor of Georgia in 2022.
In this case, the interest in such choices is heightened by the identity of the author. Does she pitch the book to the small and picky audience that truly knows the world she purports to portray, while trying to bring the less sophisticated along for the ride? Or, seeking to engage a mass audience more interested in entertainment than authenticity, will she use the high-concept setting for a purpose both less and more ambitious: selling books? Will the justices - as in life - be divided by ideology as well as by their disparate and often quirky personas? Will the author truly try to represent the hermetic world of the court or, hardest of all, the secretive and often byzantine process through which it renders its decisions? Will there be actual Republicans and Democrats? Will the politics feel authentic - as they did, for example, in Allen Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic from the 1950s, “ Advise and Consent”? “So I thought, ‘Oh my God, what if you had a judge on the Supreme Court who was in a coma? There’s literally no mechanism in federal law and the Constitution to address that issue.’ And I sat down and wrote the first scene.One approaches a legal thriller rooted in high-stakes Washington politics with a certain trepidation - and a curiosity deepened, in this case, by Stacey Abrams’s chosen setting: the U.S. “If you’re an Article III judge, you can only be removed for high crimes and misdemeanors or death,” Abrams explains. In an interview with PW earlier this year to mark the publication of While Justice Sleeps, Abrams said the spark for novel came in 2008, while Abrams was at lunch with a lawyer friend, chatting about judges who hold lifetime appointments. According to NPR, these titles sold more than 100,000 copies when they were first published more than 20 years ago. PRH's Berkley imprint announced earlier this month that it was reissuing the first three titles in the line, Rules of Engagement, The Art of Desire and Power of Persuasion, a trilogy which has been out of print. Prior to turning to thrillers, Abrams was the author of eight romance novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery. Linda Loewenthal at The Loewenthal Company represented Abrams in the deal.
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