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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Reed (The Verdict; The Choice) has written a well-plotted but curiously flat novel about a possible grand jury indictment against a prominent doctor suspected of murdering a young woman. When Boston attorney Dan Sheridan agrees to defend Dr. Christopher Dillard, he pits himself against a DA with an eye on a U.S. Senate seat and a shady Irish kingmaker who wants the entire case buried. Sheridan also becomes an unwitting target of an FBI sting operation against local lawyers suspected of criminal ties, even as he becomes romantically involved with the agent who is working undercover as one of his secretaries. Matters come to a head during the grand jury hearing: because such a hearing prohibits defense witnesses, Sheridan and his client are forced to watch while a detailed case is built against them. Reed explains the quirky rules governing grand juries in an awkward prologue; elsewhere, the narrative proceeds at a brisk but metronomically even pace that fails to generate suspense and excitement. Nevertheless, Reed, himself a Boston attorney, knows his courtrooms and the city, which he engagingly presents here as a stateside suburb of Dublin in which everybody who is anybody is Irish.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Clean-living defense attorney Dan Sheridan won't accept bribes, but he has one vice: sneaking off to the Boston suburbs to play minor league baseball one night per week. Sheila O'Brien, an FBI agent masquerading as a secretary at his office, follows him to the playing field and falls in love. Meanwhile, the feds expect her to monitor her boss's errands, phone calls, and mail for terrorist connections. In the novel's first chapters, law information is sandwiched awkwardly between sections of dialog, but the breathless plot and the likable protagonists help the reader along. Reed, a Boston attorney and author of the best-selling novels The Verdict (1980) and The Choice (LJ 7/91), has written another absorbing thriller. Recommended for most public libraries.
Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Reed (The Verdict; The Choice) has written a well-plotted but curiously flat novel about a possible grand jury indictment against a prominent doctor suspected of murdering a young woman. When Boston attorney Dan Sheridan agrees to defend Dr. Christopher Dillard, he pits himself against a DA with an eye on a U.S. Senate seat and a shady Irish kingmaker who wants the entire case buried. Sheridan also becomes an unwitting target of an FBI sting operation against local lawyers suspected of criminal ties, even as he becomes romantically involved with the agent who is working undercover as one of his secretaries. Matters come to a head during the grand jury hearing: because such a hearing prohibits defense witnesses, Sheridan and his client are forced to watch while a detailed case is built against them. Reed explains the quirky rules governing grand juries in an awkward prologue; elsewhere, the narrative proceeds at a brisk but metronomically even pace that fails to generate suspense and excitement. Nevertheless, Reed, himself a Boston attorney, knows his courtrooms and the city, which he engagingly presents here as a stateside suburb of Dublin in which everybody who is anybody is Irish.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Clean-living defense attorney Dan Sheridan won't accept bribes, but he has one vice: sneaking off to the Boston suburbs to play minor league baseball one night per week. Sheila O'Brien, an FBI agent masquerading as a secretary at his office, follows him to the playing field and falls in love. Meanwhile, the feds expect her to monitor her boss's errands, phone calls, and mail for terrorist connections. In the novel's first chapters, law information is sandwiched awkwardly between sections of dialog, but the breathless plot and the likable protagonists help the reader along. Reed, a Boston attorney and author of the best-selling novels The Verdict (1980) and The Choice (LJ 7/91), has written another absorbing thriller. Recommended for most public libraries.
Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Editorial Reviews
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