Review: The Final Account by Jeff Cooper

 

Genre: Legal Thriller

Description:

“Jack Collins’s upstart law firm is struggling to make ends meet. His solution is to bring in a new senior partner, a seasoned estate-planning lawyer well connected with the Greenwich elite. Unfortunately, his new partner is hiding a secret that could bring down the entire firm.

When Jack catches the lawyer embezzling funds from a millionaire’s estate, he thinks he’s uncovered an isolated crime. But as he slowly connects the clues, he stumbles into a far larger conspiracy involving some of Connecticut’s most powerful figures.

The people behind this financial scheme are ones Jack would never suspect. And they will do whatever it takes to keep him from exposing them.”

Author:

Jeff Cooper is a lawyer, a law professor and one time was even a candidate to be president of the US. Yeah, that last one is a bit strange. A bit of Googling uncovered this news story with a bit of an explanation. Cooper has written some in the past in law journals and other venues aimed at his fellow lawyers. Of more potential appeal to most of us he has also written one other legal thriller, also featuring Jack Collins, the protagonist of the book featured in this review.

For more about Jeff Cooper, check out his website.

Appraisal:

Some thrillers have a lot of mystery to them while others don’t, at least not in the same way. This one didn’t, at least not in the sense I’m thinking of. Who the good guys are and who the not-so-good guys are is pretty apparent early on and only gets solidified as the story continues. What the bad guys are doing is also no secret. Whether the good guys will manage to remain relatively unscathed and how or even if the not-so-good guys will receive their comeuppance and how what they’ve been doing will com out is what makes it a thriller. This is definitely a thriller. I used to be an avid reader of John Grisham and other big name legal thriller authors. Reading this took me back to those days. This was an incredibly good read.

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Format/Typo Issues:

No significant issues.

Rating: ***** Five Stars

Reviewed by: BigAl

Approximate word count: 60-65,000 words