Krishna
A satisfying read. The story takes off right from the beginning, almost from the first page onwards. Mark Sway, with his brother Rickie Sway is hiding in a park trying to smoke a prohibited cigarette, when fate throws him a curve ball. A down and out lawyer commits suicide in a car in front of him, but not before telling him a terrible secret. This secret puts both the FBI and a criminal gang in pursuit of Mark.
Mark’s brother lands in the hospital due to shock and his mom loses a job because she has to be near Rickie. That’s when Mark sneaks out and hires a lawyer to ‘help him’. The lawyer, Reggie Love, has been practicing all of four months!
With the FBI trying not-so-ethical methods to get him to speak, and with the mob snapping at his heels, Mark feels lost and confused. If he tells the Feds what he knows, he will be killed by the mob in revenge. If he does not, he may be thrown in jail for obstruction of justice. Even his lawyer does not want to know exactly what he was told!
The characters sparkle in the story and the little vein of humour one noticed in The Rainmaker (Reviewed here before) seems to pervade this story too. The suspense is kept up throughout and the spectacular legal pyrotechnics are there too. In contrast, this one does have a satisfying ending, unlike the limp ending of his earlier Rainmaker.
The story is tautly told, with interesting characters populating thestory (Judge Harry for instance, and Momma Love) to keep it intereting.
A good read and it definitely deserves a 7/10
— Krishna