Pardon the Ravens
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
"As good as the best offerings of Turow, Grisham, and other legal-thriller hitmakers"—Booklist, on Wrong Man Running
From the author of Wrong Man Running and the writer and director of the films Reunion and The Warrior Class, this fast-paced legal thriller set in the Mad Men era grabs you and doesn't let go. Gifted young New York lawyer Alec Brno gets the career boost of a lifetime: the opportunity to try a huge fraud case making international headlines. But he risks it all when he falls for an alluring young woman whose estranged husband is a sadistic Mafia don—and the criminal mastermind behind Alec's case.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in New York City in the early 1960s, this formulaic thriller from Hruska (Wrong Man Running) pits a cocky young lawyer against a sadistic mob boss. Alec Brno is only in his second year at top corporate law firm Kendall, Blake, Steel & Braddock, but he has impressed the partners enough to earn a spot on the team defending U.S. Safety Vault from charges of more than a billion dollars' worth of fraud. Their defense is that the company itself was swindled, and suspicion falls on mob boss Phil Anwar as the money behind the con. Meanwhile, Phil's addict wife, Carrie Madigan, flees from his abuse and is rescued by Alec, who immediately falls for this damsel in distress, even though she is a potential key witness in the case. Wise but gruff senior partners and scary but none-too-bright mob henchmen round out the cast. Readers will find few surprises along the way to the sweet ending.
