06-09-2021, 01:54 PM
The Plea by Steve Cavanaugh
Legal Thriller. Eddie Flynn is a confidence man turned lawyer using the tricks he learned tricking people to game the legal system. And the clock is ticking. Always ticking. We only have an hour to get this thing done. We have a day to free my wife. Etc. The stakes are sky high. If he doesn't solve this case, He'll go to jail. His wife and daughter will die.
The book takes place over a day. It is not a slow burn. It's a gallon of gas on a California Hillside in mid-July and they already through in the lit match. Eddie has a day to get a billionaire tech bro convicted of murder to make him his lawyer and get the tech bro to do a plea deal so the CIA can use him to get his current law firm. His current law firm is suspected of laundering money for the drug cartels and the CIA wants to indict the law firm and collect all the money. But there is something shady going on and it's up to Eddy to find out what. The puzzle at the center is who killed the tech bros girlfriend?
Lots of zany characters. Lots of double crosses. Lots of cool legal maneuvering. Lots of lots.
The book is told in first person narrative and it gets a little old. Eddie is always explaining things. Every chapter needs at least a page of backstory to explain what is going on or why Eddy uses a certain character to help him or how Eddy got to where he is. Lots of interruptions in the narrative. I think this technique was used even more in the first novel and I gave up on the author. But plenty of people I follow recommended him so I thought I would dip back in to see what I missed. This book was better than the first. There had to be a lot of suspension of belief. It's almost an urban fantasy story set in the legal world.
But it was an interesting story and I'm now reading the next book in the series. The Book Count does not stop!
Legal Thriller. Eddie Flynn is a confidence man turned lawyer using the tricks he learned tricking people to game the legal system. And the clock is ticking. Always ticking. We only have an hour to get this thing done. We have a day to free my wife. Etc. The stakes are sky high. If he doesn't solve this case, He'll go to jail. His wife and daughter will die.
The book takes place over a day. It is not a slow burn. It's a gallon of gas on a California Hillside in mid-July and they already through in the lit match. Eddie has a day to get a billionaire tech bro convicted of murder to make him his lawyer and get the tech bro to do a plea deal so the CIA can use him to get his current law firm. His current law firm is suspected of laundering money for the drug cartels and the CIA wants to indict the law firm and collect all the money. But there is something shady going on and it's up to Eddy to find out what. The puzzle at the center is who killed the tech bros girlfriend?
Lots of zany characters. Lots of double crosses. Lots of cool legal maneuvering. Lots of lots.
The book is told in first person narrative and it gets a little old. Eddie is always explaining things. Every chapter needs at least a page of backstory to explain what is going on or why Eddy uses a certain character to help him or how Eddy got to where he is. Lots of interruptions in the narrative. I think this technique was used even more in the first novel and I gave up on the author. But plenty of people I follow recommended him so I thought I would dip back in to see what I missed. This book was better than the first. There had to be a lot of suspension of belief. It's almost an urban fantasy story set in the legal world.
But it was an interesting story and I'm now reading the next book in the series. The Book Count does not stop!
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm