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2003 Warner Books mass-market paperback bought at the thrift store to release. From Booklist Hot on the heels of 2nd Chance (2002), Patterson's latest thriller is a stand-alone mystery about the death of a young man in the Hamptons. Jack Mullen, a law-school student, is devastated when he learns that his beloved younger brother, Peter, has drowned while working as a valet at a ritzy party in the Hamptons. Jack is also suspicious; although Peter's death is ruled a suicide by the local police, Jack can't believe that his brother would go for a swim on a chilly evening when he was supposed to be working. The bruises covering Peter's body also lead Jack to suspect foul play. Jack begins to think that Barry and Compton Neubauer, the hosts of the party, and also the parents of Jack's girlfriend, Dana, are covering up the truth about what happened to Peter. Although Jack gets help from his school friends and Pauline, an attractive investigator, he faces seemingly insurmountable odds. The police, led by Frank Volpi, continue to stonewall, and a mysterious man threatens anyone who tries to produce evidence of Peter's murder. Despite the danger and the unexpected and often unpleasant revelations about his brother along the way, Jack is tenacious, and the novel races along to a somewhat implausible climax. But if Patterson fails to completely convince, he certainly doesn't fail to thrill, and readers will be turning the pages until the end. From Publishers Weekly Patterson's second coauthored novel of the year (after the current bestseller 2nd Chance, written with Andrew Gross) is a relatively rare stand-alone for this immensely popular writer. Unlike some of Patterson's stand-alones, however, including the most recent, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, this doesn't move Patterson into new territory: it's a slick, vastly enjoyable yet far-fetched thriller i.e., typical Patterson. Its hero is a Columbia University law student, Jack Mullen, who's out to avenge the death of his younger brother, Peter, found dead on the Amagansett, Long Island, property of the immensely wealthy Neubauer family, a few miles from Jack and Peter's Montauk home. The cops say Peter drowned; a glance at the corpse tells Jack that his brother was beaten to death. The rest of the novel traces Jack's efforts, with the help of a female private eye/love interest, plus his elderly grandfather and a band of Montauk locals, to prove that Peter was murdered and that billionaire Barry Neubauer played a role in his demise. Arrayed against Jack are a tough cop, high-placed lawyers and a sadistic killer all owned by Neubauer money. Jack's diggings lead to evidence not only of Peter's murder but of its part in a coverup involving sexual scandal and blackmail; to get the justice that's denied them, Jack and his friends take the law into their own hands, kidnapping Neubauer and his cohorts and trying them in a kangaroo court whose proceedings they broadcast on TV. Smooth as a vanilla milk shake and no more sophisticated, written in 113 short chapters that won't tax anyone's attention span, this is smart, market-savvy, populist entertainment. |
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Released 6 yrs ago (3/13/2006 UTC) at New Haven County Courthouse, 235 Church St. at Wall St. in New Haven, Connecticut USA WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES: Left on the magazine/book table in the 9th floor jury room at the New Haven County Courthouse 235 Church St. (on the corner of Wall St.) New Haven, CT 06510 http://www.jud.state.ct.us/faq/accom/newhaven.htm Thanks for finding this book Please write a journal entry letting all its past and future readers know that this book was found. (It's anonymous, and you don't have to join Bookcrossing to do it.) Then read and keep this book, give it to a friend, or even release it for someone else to find--just like you did. Happy reading! |
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