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Beach Road Hardcover – May 1, 2006
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Then an old friend of Tom's, a local star athlete, is arrested for a triple murder on the beach near a movie star's mansion. Tom knows in his gut that Dante Halleyville is innocent. Dante asks Tom to represent him in what could be the new Trial of the Century, and for the first time, Tom is on the spot and in the public eye.
Tom recruits Manhattan superlawyer Kate Costello to help fight this case. She's a tough hire, because Kate is his ex-girlfriend, and she's seen him at his worst - but she comes back. All the two have to do is discover who really executed three locals and why they went to such incredible lengths to set up Dante as the killer. Even as Tom wonders whether he can ever get Kate to forgive him for his past sins, the case takes on astonishing dimensions, revealing a world of illegal pleasures, revenge, and fear among the superrich. With the entire nation's eyes on him, Tom orchestrates a series of revelations to lure the real killer out of hiding - and what emerges is staggering. No could image a killer this ruthless.
- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
- Publication dateMay 1, 2006
- Dimensions6.33 x 1.38 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-100316159786
- ISBN-13978-0316159784
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- Publisher : Little, Brown and Company; First Edition (May 1, 2006)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316159786
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316159784
- Item Weight : 1.4 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.33 x 1.38 x 9.5 inches
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JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.
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But, and it's a big but, what were they thinking!!! If you're a reader you invest yourself in the characters and the story. You accept characters who are not perfect because it is part of the building of the overall story. When a writer deceives you by using your very love of books against you it is shocking. When a beloved character is killed in a book you hate it, but it is usually offset by the satisfaction of the story, the book delivers even when it wrenches incredible emotion from you. This book fell short because it didn't deliver, it deceived, it tricked, the author gave the readers no respect.
I'm a reader, I love a book that shocks me, makes me think, one where I can't figure out the killer or the ending, but the actions of the characters usually give me some inkling of what to expect. Beach Road gave no warning and did such an incredible 360 that it disrespected the reader. But of course, that's also what makes a good book.
A lot of people will enjoy this book and I understand why. Me, I feel very unsatsfied. I expected something better. Read it and you decide.
At first, this book reads like a Grisham hybrid, as a down and out attorney takes on a case in which he is most certainly the underdog. In fact, it is so much like a Grisham novel, that one chapter in particular is taken almost word for word from A Time to Kill.
The attorney is Tom Dunleavey, who is an ex-professional athlete who takes on the case of a young athlete who was framed for the murders of individuals who were well-known, and liked by the community. With lots of circumstantial evidence piled up against the defendent, the entire community thirsting for blood for the seemingly senseless murders, and Tom not having much courtroom experience, the story is almost cliche in that a miracle is needed to overcome the situation.
That miracle comes in the name of Kate Costello, who is Tom's ex-girlfriend. Kate is a star attorney who has already made waves in the legal field as a defense attorney. A desperate Tom seeks out her assistance, and reluctantly, she agrees to take on the case.
Gradually, they work on building up evidence to prove Dante's innocence.
The book is great, until the final twist in the book, which really left a bad taste in my mouth.
I won't give away the ending, but the twist is so ridiculous that you basically have to be lied to for the entire novel for the revelation to be conceivable and for the identity of the true murderer to be concealed until the climax. It was such a tasteless change of pace in the novel, that it was really difficult to finish the book.
Nice try at trying to avoid the cliched, sappy ending. However, this was just too much of a misstep.
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