The Court [Mass Market Paperback]

William J. Coughlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 1999

Nine Supreme Court judges will soon decide four history-making cases. Eight of them will split along party lines four to four. The ninth judge, holding the swing vote, will tip the scales of justice. He's a good man, a fine man, and, unknown to nearly everyone, a dying man-barely kept alive by machines in a very private hospital.

High-powered Washington attorney Jerry Green is one of the privileged few who discovers American justice rides on the rise and fall of a respirator. Now he's been called by the President himself to do something about it. It's a hunt for truth that will arouse his darkest suspicions...force him to make a shocking choice...and save the legitimacy of American justice. Or shatter it forever...

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Vintage Coughlin. Sharp, tight, and full of suspense and wisdom." --Scott Turow on Judgement

About the Author

William J. Coughlin, a former defense attorney and judge in Detroit for twenty years, was the author of sixteen novels. He lived in Grosse Point Woods, Michigan, with his wife, Ruth, an author and book critic.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (December 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312970277
• ISBN-13: 978-0312970277
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,071,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a reprint, November 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Court (Mass Market Paperback)

A word to the wise: this book was originally published in 1982 as NO MORE DREAMS. I bought it used and haven't yet read it, but I needed to give it some stars to submit this.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ironically about integrity-but not the publisher's, December 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Court (Mass Market Paperback)

The theme of this book is integrity. Rather odd, considering that the book has been put together in a rather questionable way. The book was apparently published previously under a different title in 1982, but has been edited some (to include such things as references to the Internet to make it some more modern). Somebody other than William Coughlin did this, presumably, since Mr. Coughlin has passed on. As in the case of another recently published "Coughlin" book, the publisher is apparently unhappy that Coughlin is not around to write new books and has decided to fill this gap in other ways. The editing was done very sloppily and the book is riddled with typos. The book does not have much of a plot but is reasonably well written and some of the characters are interesting.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Grossly misleading, January 9, 2000

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Gerrit Ruitinga "gerrit ruitinga" (Antwerp) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Court (Mass Market Paperback)

William Coughlin was one of the finest writers of legal thrillers around and I have always enjoyed his books very much. When two years ago The Judgement was published I assumed it was done posthumously, but still written by the author himself.

This is certaily not the case for The Court. Yes, I know that it is based on one of his earlier novels, but the many references to the Internet, the Reagan years, the Clinton administration and so on cannot, of course, have been written by William Coughlin.

I think it is a very sick marketing policy of the publishers to refrain from ANY refernece on the cover that in fact the book has been written and/or edited by somebody else.

I hope this will stop quickly!