Where Law Ends

Inside the Mueller Investigation

By: Andrew Weissmann

Narrated by: George Newbern, Andrew Weissmann

New York Times best seller

In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one of the special counsel’s most trusted prosecutors breaks his silence on the team’s history-making search for the truth, their painstaking deliberations and costly mistakes, and Trump’s unprecedented efforts to stifle their report.

“Weissmann delivers the kind of forceful, ringing indictment that Mueller’s report did not.” (The New York Times)

In May 2017, Robert Mueller was tapped to lead an inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, coordination by foreign agents with Donald Trump’s campaign, and obstruction of justice by the president. Mueller assembled a “dream team” of top prosecutors, and for the next 22 months, the investigation was a black box and the subject of endless anticipation and speculation — until April 2019, when the special counsel’s report was released.

In Where Law Ends, legendary prosecutor Andrew Weissmann — a key player in the Special Counsel’s Office — finally pulls back the curtain to reveal exactly what went on inside the investigation, including the heated debates, painful deliberations, and mistakes of the team — not to mention the external efforts by the president and Attorney General William Barr to manipulate the investigation to their political ends. Weissmann puts the listener in the room as Mueller’s team made their most consequential decisions, such as whether to subpoena the president, whether to conduct a full financial investigation of Trump, and whether to explicitly recommend obstruction charges against him. Weissmann also details for the first time the debilitating effects that President Trump himself had on the investigation, through his dangling of pardons and his constant threats to shut down the inquiry and fire Mueller, which left the team racing against the clock and essentially fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.  

In Where Law Ends, Weissmann conjures the camaraderie and esprit de corps of the investigative units led by the enigmatic Mueller, a distinguished public servant who is revealed here, in a way we have never seen him before, as a manager, a colleague, and a very human presence. Weissmann is as candid about the team’s mistakes as he is about its successes, and is committed to accurately documenting the historic investigation for future generations to assess and learn from.

Ultimately, Where Law Ends is a story about a team of public servants, dedicated to the rule of law, tasked with investigating a president who did everything he could to stand in their way.

©2020 Andrew Weissmann (P)2020 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“Where Law Ends burns like an old-fashioned 150-watt bulb, delivering light and heat in equal measure.... Where Law Ends is a gift - a clarifying piece of history, wrapped up in our era’s boundless anger and suspicion.” (Devlin Barrett, The Washington Post)

"A lucid and engrossing insider's look at Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election ... an essential record of what the Mueller investigation proved and why it failed to bring Trump down.” (Publishers Weekly)

“A damning indictment of a ‘lawless’ president.” (George Packer, The Atlantic)

I Wish More People Would Listen To This!

My title says it all. More people need to listen to facts, instead of "story" that are spun by media outlets and the likes of William Barr.

A historical record

The story is worth the time and fills in the blanks left by the report.

please read

A must read for every American. Do yourself and your Country a favor and read before you vote. regardless of your political party, read and ask yourself one question. what if just 2% of this is true?

Excellent

This should be required reading. Excellent insight into the Mueller Investigation. I listened to for hours at a time. I could not turn it off. It was gut wrenching, and fascinating.

Weissmann’s “Where the Law Ends”

Muller let us done. Being close friend w Barr certainly made him to be Republican enabler than former himself. Weissmann and his team s proved to be the real patriots except ass king coward Aaron. Thank you for your service to our nation. Also for writing this book.

Where Law Ends

I was curious about the work needed to produce the Mueller report. The behind the scene work that went into it was amazing. It was appalling that behind the “curtain “ that at least 4 people conspired to steal half a country. It is more appalling that one of those participants would be the president of the United States of America. Birds of a feather flock to gather. The reader was excellent.

Good read.

Very detailed, straight forward , facts are facts. A fact is something that can’t be argued. Good read

Brilliant writing, easy-going for the average joe

i listened to this book 3 times. There's so much to take in.I had no idea how involved these criminals really were and how many outrageous and treasonous crimes they actually committed. I'm eternally grateful to Andrew Weissman for writing this book.

Every American needs to read this

Clearly written and easy to read. Don't listen to what the previous administration decided about the Mueller Report, gets the actual facts here. Excellent and highly recommend

I knew I was scared...now I really am

Thank you Mr. Weissmann for having the courage of your convictions and for loving our country, our democracy enough to put what happened behind closed doors for all of us to read. Thank you for exposing those characters who will go down in history as the ones who tried to destroy what our forefathers fought so hard for.