The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority by William A. Edmundson. Here is a description:
How is a legitimate state possible? Obedience, coercion, and intrusion are three ideas that seem inseparable from all government and seem to render state authority presumptively illegitimate. This book exposes three fallacies inspired by these ideas and in doing so challenges assumptions shared by liberals, libertarians, cultural conservatives, moderates, and Marxists. In three clear and tightly-argued essays William Edmundson dispels these fallacies and shows that living in a just state remains a worthy ideal. This is an important book for all philosophers, political scientists, and legal theorists as well as readers interested in the views of Rawls, Dworkin, and Nozick, many of whose central ideas are subjected to rigorous critique.
And two blurbs:
"…the review cannot convey the impressive combination of clarity, care, precision, focus, detail and conciseness with which Edmundson develops his arguments. Three Anarchical Fallacies is a very good work of philosophical analysis in my opinion." Ethics
"A marvelous book." Choice
Edmundson’s work on legitimacy & the obligation to obey the law is extraordinary–carefully done and written with a deep and broad understanding of the literature, both historical and contemporary. "Highly recommended" is just not enthusiastic enough.