Genre: Legal
Thriller
Description:
“The law asks what a reasonable, prudent man would do. It never warns
you how few of them you’ll meet.
He never wanted to be a lawyer. But the debt was mounting and nothing
else had stuck, and law school was the last ripcord left to pull — so Christian
pulled it, graduating at the top of a class he couldn’t stand, straight into a
profession that promised to finally make him someone.
What it makes him, first, is a young man adrift between two Kentuckys.
In a fog-smothered Appalachian town, a cigar-smoking judge shows him that the
law runs on common sense, not citations, and a landlocked surfer named Jesse
shows him something harder to name. Then the big firm calls. Christian trades
the quiet for Fentz — its kill-or-be-killed corridors, a charismatic partner
who takes him under his wing, and a woman he can’t decide whether to trust. By
the time he understands the game being played around him, he’s the one left
holding the blame.”
Author:
An attorney, former reporter as well as being a playwright and author
with several books to his credit, Peter J. Stravos lives in Kentucky. For more,
visit his website.
Appraisal:
I’ve always been a fan of legal thrillers, think John Grisham and the
like. This one was a good read and appealed for many of the same reasons. But
this is also not like a typical legal thriller in many ways. In some ways you
could almost view it as a coming-of-age story for an attorney who thinks he
knows what he wants when he decides to become a lawyer, which is a career in
what he calls “BigLaw.” To be fair, that’s not really what he wants, but it is
what he decides is something he can do that will give him what he’s looking for
from life, so he goes for it. How that works out is a little up and down with
some positives and some things that, if you’re paying attention, might be
concerning. How it all works out is an adventure I enjoyed experiencing
vicariously.
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FYI:
Some adult language and mild adult situations.
Format/Typo
Issues:
Review is based on an advance reviewer copy so I can’t gauge the final
product in this area.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 95-100,000 words
