Recusal (Recusal 1)
Jake Lehman, fresh out of law school at NYU, finds himself swept into the political intrigue and moral dilemmas plaguing the nation’s capital when he lands in Washington, DC, for a clerkship with the venerable Supreme Court Justice White. As he begins falling for a fellow clerk--a brilliant and gorgeous Rhodes scholar from Stanford--a political scandal erupts, implicating the president and raising questions of Justice White’s bias toward the case. Set in America’s near future, Recusal provides an inside look into presidential pardons, censorship, and recusal issues, drawing on current events to show the gray spaces within judicial ethics.
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Book details
- Author
- R.L. Sommer
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Thrillers › Legal
Fiction › Legal
Fiction › Ghost - Topics
- legal thriller · Supreme Court · political scandal · Washington DC · judicial ethics · law clerk romance · presidential pardon · courtroom drama
- ISBN-13
- 9781684424962 (Paperback)9781684424979 (Hardcover)
About the author
R.L. SOMMER was the pen name of Ronald Goldfarb (1933–2025), a Washington, D.C. attorney, literary agent, and author of 13 nonfiction books as well as hundreds of articles, reviews, and op-eds. He adopted the pseudonym to distinguish his fiction from his nonfiction work.
Goldfarb held degrees from Syracuse University (A.B., LL.B.) and Yale Law School (LL.M., J.S.D.). He served three years as a trial counsel in the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps and four years in the Justice Department under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, prosecuting organized crime cases and serving as Kennedy’s speechwriter during the 1964 New York Senate campaign. His firm, Goldfarb & Associates, maintained offices in Washington, D.C., and Miami. He passed away in May 2025.