The President of the United States is a horn dog who will do whatever he has to stay in power.
One of his illicit tryst goes bad when he decides to get rough with the wife of one of his best friends. She attacks him with a knife and he yells and the Secret Service agents fatally shoot her. He is so drunk that he doesn't really know what has happened but his Chief of Staff orchestrates a cover up, with the two Secret Service agents and the President. Unbeknownst to any of them there is an eyewitness to the entire encounter, who also holds a key piece of evidence.
When he gets fed up with the President's hypocrisy he decides to blackmail the President in a unique way. At that moment the saying that absolute power corrupts absolutely comes true. All the forces the President commands come down on the eyewitness.
One man stands in the way.
If you saw the movie with Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood, you only got half the story. There is a central character in the book who was dropped in the movie.
10/10
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