Joseph Reeder is a former Secret Service agent who took a bullet for the president, a man whom he didn't respect and whose conservative politics he did not like in Max Allan Collins' political thriller Supreme Justice. His politics put him at odds with his superiors and coworkers, and he compared himself to Pete Rose, who didn't get into baseball's Hall of Fame due to his gambling, saying that, like Rose, "he accomplished great things, but would spend eternity on the outside."Reeder now owns a p...

I found this story to be smoothly written, exciting, and meaningful.When I read a story I look at about four broad areas. This is how the story rates, in my opinion, on these four areas:Writing quality: excellentResearch: very goodEmotional content: goodThematic content: goodThe writing seemed excellent to me. It was very smoothly written and showed the care and experience of a master story teller. The plot, pacing, description, transitions, dialog, character development, and other aspects of wr...

I picked this up because of the blurb. As I started reading, I was immediately sucked into the story. The pacing is really good and the plot is engaging. Although, this was published in 2014 it just feels more timely. I will definitely be reading the second in this series.

This is a pretty good story, ruined by the author's assumption that everyone shares his political viewpoint. It is one thing to put an attitude or political philosophy in the words and mind of a character, but when such infuses the narrative and is clearly the author's then it gets in the way. Or at worse just aggravates the reader.Second fault is the casual prose which too many of today's authors adopt. The use of contractions has no place in serious writing or even the text of garden variety p...

Max Allan Collins once again delivers a thriller that doesn't let go once it sucks you in.A Supreme Court justice is killed. It looks like a bungled robbery, but former Secret Service agent Joe Reeder spots something in the security tapes that tells him it was an assassination. He's an expert at kinesics, reading body language, and that ability gets him invited as a consultant on the investigation.Reeder once took a bullet aimed for a President he didn't like and voicing that opinion caused his

REVIEW OF AUDIOBOOK; JANUARY 30, 2016Narrator: Dan John MillerWarning: bound to upset those with strong political (American) views! I'm not interested in politics nor am I American but I enjoy listening to political thrillers provided they don't spend too much time talking about the politics - which this book does. Still, I found it interesting enough to keep listening, though that's likely due to Dan John Miller's excellent narration. He's great with female voices and his skill at giving differ...

Very good book and great narration by Dan John Miller (audible review).This was a very good book. I really liked Joe Reeder aka Peep. I like a good mystery, conspiracy story and this was one for sure.The story line and plot was very good. Who is assassinating the Supreme Court Justices? Joe Reeder found out! I liked that it kept me guessing until the end. I won't give any spoilers but this was a good one, I liked the writing and the story flowed very well it didn't get confusing at all, it was f...

Supreme Justice by Max Allan Collins is a political thriller set a decade into the future. The hard-right justices of the Supreme Court have taken a hard right turn. Some earlier landmark judgments have been reversed, the most significant being Roe v. Wade. The justices have allowed prayer back in schools. Murmur of discontent is brewing in certain quarters.Supreme Court Associate Justice Henry Venter, who successfully spearheaded the efforts, along with other government officials is out eating

Supreme Justice by Max Allan CollinsThis book was my June Kindle First read. The reason I picked this one was because I've always been a Max Allan Collins fan. The timing of the unfortunate Supreme Court decision a couple of weeks ago had nothing to do with my choice. However, I did notice Amazon taking full advantage of the subject matter by heavily promoting it recently. Sadly, this book just was not up to Collins' usual standards in my opinion. Slightly preachy, a lot dull and boring with the...

A pretty decent novel with a premise that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Someone has assassinated two justices of the Supreme Court. The purpose is to realign the court into a more liberal stance. Joe Reeder, an former Secret Service agent who took a bullet for a president he despised is asked by the FBI to use his skill at reading people to assist the investigation. Collins does a pretty good job of mixing up the political views of the characters. He takes aim at the far right wing n...

Don’t ask me why I read book three of this series then went back to one. Just goofy, I guess. However, I don’t think I really missed anything important so they can all be stand-alone stories.This one was about Reeder and how he first met Patti but that’s about all that was different. Miggie and Fisk were in this one too but that’s all. There was Sloan, Cribbs and Eaton, and Nicky Blount from book 3 made and appearance. It was about a conspiracy to kill Chief Justices of the United States, and th...

I've watched his works, but this is the first book he authored that I've read. If what I'll write for the remainder of this review won't make sense or if you won't bother to read, then know that he is one author I'd be following from now on.Justices were being murdered. There is a conspiracy, and the brains behind it are always steps ahead of the government task force. In the end, it would come down to who'll survive to tell: the truth or the cover up. As with things government, I had to reread

Good thrillerExcellent writing in a story in which a former Secret Security agent is brought into a task force by his friend to help search for the killer of 2 Supreme Court justices. As the agent.,Peeps,closes in on a conspiracy involving someone in the task force itself,his daughter is kidnapped,and he comes to realize his 'friend' is involved. Good storyline,great action,the story keeps you turning to the next page! Excellent book for all mystery/thriller lovers out there,I highly recommend i...

Cheesy thriller offers no surprises, dumb endingSpoilers ahead.There are few things I am able to truly hate about Supreme Justice. I have to respect the complete disregard for originality. The ability to abandon all thought. All effort. Mr. Collins has achieved the unachievable: complete uncreativity.This thriller starts promising enough. In a seemingly random act of violence a justice of the supreme court is gunned down in cold blood. All involved in the investigation agree that it was a robber...

Supreme Court Justice Henry Venter is killed in what appears to be a robbery gone wrong and a multi-agency taskforce is established to track down those responsible. Asked to review footage from the attack, former Secret Service agent and kinesics expert Joe Reeder sees something noone else has noticed: The robbery was nothing but a smokescreen, rather than collateral damage, Justice Venter was the target of an assassination. By special request from the FBI's Assistant Director, Reeder is added t...

This mystery was well written, a story that really pulled you in, had quite a number of twist and turns to really make you think. Killing Supreme Court justices to tip the balance to one political side is very intriguing. I enjoyed getting to know the characters as well. I feel like there might be a sequel to develop Joe and Patti even more. However, the pushing of a political message was irritating. There were numerous subtle jabs towards conservatives that weren't necessary. Even the initials

3.5 starsSupreme Justice is a good overall suspense mystery. Some dialog is kind of hokey and a somewhat predictable plot. The audio book is overall okay. The narrator had too deep of a voice to do female voices effectively.This tale of Supreme Court Justices being assassinated started off pretty interesting but the plot got more shallow as the story progressed. Joe Reeder is kind of a Jack Reacher clone. The book even has a similar tone as the Reacher books. Rogers is a great character albeit a...

I really enjoyed this book, especially the main character. I decided to look up the author and see if there were any other books with Joe Reeder as the lead. Sadly there weren't. What I discovered was that the author had been catching a lot of flac from conservatives saying the book was too liberal and written with a liberal political slant in mind. I didn't see it that way. Yes, the main character was a liberal and the Supreme Court justices killed were conservative, but I didn't read this for

A perfectly serviceable thriller, clumsy at times (particularly the "twist" -- a term I use lightly in this book), but I'd honestly pick up a 2nd book with the protagonist, especially if his partner got a bit more time to develop.Some POV issues, but he mostly avoids the Dan Brown curse of short sentences and overly detailed BS we don't need. There is this AWFUL question right after the reveal of the big bad: "Had (view spoiler)[ been plotting supreme revenge?" For a book about the assassinatio...

I received this book for free through the Kindle First program.I'm glad I'm not in an Indiana Jones movie. Because for the months of May & June, I chose poorly with my Kindle First books.This one didn't irk me as much as my May choice, but it isn't on my re-read list either. The entire concept of the book was pretty unrealistic and unoriginal--both forgivable with above average characters and prose. Unfortunately, neither of those are in this book.The politics were nauseatingly in your face the