Official Privilege

official Privilege Begins With A Mystery: In The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, The Mummified Body Of A Black Navy Lieutenant Is Found Bolted Inside The Boiler Of A Deactivated Battleship. While The Cause Of Death Is Clear, The Officer's Identity Is Not. With Nerve Ends Raw From The Media Focus On Recent Scandals, The Pentagon Bypasses Its Own Investigative Service And Appoints A Commander, Dan Collins, And A Civilian, Grace Snow, To Conduct An Inquiry. Together They Resolve To Ignore The Navy's Political Sensitivities And Conduct A By-the-book Murder Investigation. But Then They Uncover Evidence That Points Back To Washington, D.c., And A Two-year-old Unsolved Case Involving Another Black Navy Lieutenant, A Beautiful Young Woman, Who Died Under Violent Circumstances. While They Search For Links Between The Two Deaths, They Attract The Attention Of One Malachi Ward. Cunning, Ruthless, Well Paid, And Ferociously Resourceful, He Will Do Whatever It Takes To Protect His Hidden Client's Privilege. In A Tense, Deadly Game Of Cat-and-mouse, Malachi Tracks Collins And Snow Through Washington's Streets And Corridors Of Power, Determined To Keep Them From Learning The Secret Behind The Body In The Battleship. publishers Weekly former Naval Captain Deutermann Presents A Detective Thriller In Which The Investigation Of A Naval Officer's Murder Leads To A High-level Cover-up. (feb.) The body of a young black naval officer is found chained in the boiler of a mothballed battleship in Philadelphia. Naval investigators Dan Collins and Grace Snow discover a link to a hushed sex scandal involving a senior naval officer and a young lieutenant. The discovery puts both their lives in peril. By the author of 'The Edge of Honor' Mothballed in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, an old battleship is long forgotten ... until the body of a young naval lieutenant is found chained inside it boiler. Questions about the murder lead to Washington's highest circles