Beach Road
James Patterson & Peter De Jonge
(Reviewer - Narayan Radhakrishnan)
2006 Little, Brown & Co.
ISBN: 0316159786

The case of a lifetime comes to a struggling lawyer when he is hired to defend a local star athlete accused of murder.

Sr. Associate Reviewer Narayan Radhakrishnan wrote:

After the 2002 thriller The Beach House, Peter De Jonge once again teams up with James ‘Master of Suspense’ Patterson to deliver a thriller that will blow your mind. & no, The Beach Road is not a sequel, save for the fact that it features a legal protagonist & has an East Hampton setting.

Tom Dunleavy has had a mediocre career both as a student of law & a lawyer. & though he dreamed of making it big in basketball, that also had an early demise. So when a local star athlete, Dante Halleyville, is accused of murdering three... nope... four... make that five people, & calls on the help of Dunleavy, Attorney-at-law, Tom is overawed, & immediately hits the books.

Tom's responsibility ratchets up a notch when his client refuses to take the help of a star defense attorney who has just successfully defended a “major league baseball star... for the murder of his wife”.

Soon the media is calling this the trial of the century & persons interested in the trial include legal doyens like Gerry Spence & Alan Dershowitz. Also keeping a close watch are Steven Spielberg, George Clooney & Matt Damon, & I'm sure I need not spell out the reasons why.

Will Tom help Dante get free? Will he unmask the real killer? & will the race card affect the trial? What follows is Patterson at his zenith, & the ending... simply wow!

Beach Road has nail-biting suspense & spine chilling terror, with an end you never would dare to imagine. Don’t miss this one.

More from James Patterson:
5th Horseman
4th of July
Mary Mary
Maximum Ride
Lifeguard
Sam's Letters To Jennifer
The Big Bad Wolf
The Beach House
Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas
Hide & Seek
1st To Die
2nd Change
3rd Degree & many, many more!
(04/23/06)

Narayan
2006©Narayan Radhakrishnan
A RebeccasReads.Com Sr. Associate Reviewer

Reviewer's Bio:
I am a 26 years old lawyer practicing in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Along with my legal practice, I have finished post-graduate studies for both Business Law & Human Rights. I am a self proclaimed numero-uno legal thriller lover & am the proud owner of all of Grisham's & Turow's novels. I enjoy John Mortimer's Rumpole & relish an occasional Martini & a rare Scot(ch)t-oline with a Patterson on the side.

My work A FICTION OF LAW is now about 500 pages in length & features 500 lawyer authors & 2000 legal thrillers covering a 300 year period - inclusive of entries from the USA, UK, Asia, Europe, China, Middle East etc. Still in search of a publisher.
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