Customer Reviews

In the Presence of Enemies

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If you like books with good attorney drama you'll like this one. Jake is a good character, split between his wife and Mrs. Daren, it gets more complicated by his employer. Sage is a good opponent. The Daren family, the spoiled brat Chip and his sister Gussie add to the plot. If you like Grisham you'll like this. I recommend it. It's not overpowering, but a solid 4 star book.

I didn't feel that this was a bad book - It wsn't Coughlin's best, but...The jacket and the review keep talking about an afair between lawyer Jake Martin and client (about to be wealthy) widow. They never as much as kissed, or discussed a relationsip, or went out together. There was absolutely no personal relationship. It was surely put on the book jacket to make one feel that there will be exciting sexual tension and moral delemas - but I waited and waited for that plot twist and it never started. It was completely fraudulant and an absolute lie on the book cover and I'm seeing it in one of your synopsyses. I never vote for more Governmant regulation - but, out and out lying to sell a book - you should be ashamed.

Jake and Elizabeth weren't lovers as the back cover stated! Other than that, it was a good book and I read it twice. It's one of my favorites from WJC.

This is the last book wy William J. Coughlin, and those familiar with his work know how very readable his novels are and how compelling the plot.

This one is really good. What looks like a simple open and shut case for the lawyer becomes anything but and things seem to go out of contro. But, therein lies the mystery and the thrill of reading how the characters try to overcome the problems which are thrust before them.

This is an excellent and enjoyable read.

J. Robert Ewbank, author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"

It does keep your interest. Fast moving. Another book about a good-hearted lawyer working against the odds, with twists and turns similar to Grissom. Coughlin is good at building up to an unexpected outcome. I read the reviews before I finished and was totally surprised because I, too, was waiting for the relationship between the lawyer and the beautiful widow to heat up. Didn't need that plot twist anyway. There was enough going on.

This was a very good story that kept your attention and kept you guessing with all the twists and turns. Its strange though how the back cover is almost totally false, most of those things didn't even happen in the story, did the person who wrote it even read the book? That aside, it was an entertaining, absorbing read.

I found this book on my desk and from that moment was entrenched in Coughlin's writing. The one disappointing part of this fine novel is the teaser on the back cover. Affair between Jake and Elizabeth? They never even kissed.

sorry. they did kiss, but it was a peck