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Loading... Ties That Bindby Phillip Margolin
None. Incredible ending! (  ) kaylol | Dec 9, 2010 |  I don't read as many thrillers as I used to, but it seems like when I do read one these days, it ends up being an abridged audio, which is not always the best choice I don't think. This one moved too fast for me. I think the storyline was decent, but I would've followed it better had it not been abridged. I found myself having a little trouble keeping track of who was who & while there were a few plot twists in this one, they seemed pretty abrupt. As for the audio itself, I didn't care so much for the reader in this one. Her normal reading voice was fine, but when she tried to assume the different voices of the characters, I found that quite annoying. (  ) indygo88 | Nov 3, 2010 | A local pimp is accused of murdering a US Senator who is in the running to become the next US President. While awaiting trial his court appointed attorney is killed in a knife fight in the private client attorney room. Queue Amanda Jaffe, she is a lawyer in a private firm run by her father and is asked by the presiding judge to be Dupre's lawyer since no one else will after the death of his first. She grudgingly agrees and finds out she bit off more than expected, a 30-year old power conspiracy to be exact and they want it to stay quiet. This book had a lot of suspense, quit a few good twists and turns and one or two real surprises. Of course it was a bit far fetched but that is to be expected in these kind of books. If you accept the facts as they are given the plot holds together pretty well and he didn't use action scenes just to cover up glaring holes. Overall I thought it was a decent read and worth the time it took to listen in the car. (  ) readafew | Feb 19, 2010 | I have always been attracted to books that feature secret societies. This one did. Basically a group of spoiled college buddies got together to take down a drug dealer and put another guy in his place. This new guy would be all super loyal and do whatever dirty work they wanted him to do from then on. These spoiled kids grew up and got positions of power. They wanted to make the son of one of them join the group but he kind of freaked out and wouldn’t go along with it. He was supposed to murder a prostitute that worked for Jon Dupre and then take the gun and a suicide note and turn it over to the secret group of assholes. That was their insurance that none of their members could escape if they had second thoughts. In the end, he set up the murder of the woman (who had some key evidence against them) and Jon Dupre was acquitted of murdering the senator (really the work of this secret group). Bookmarque | Jun 14, 2009 | I found it an enjoyable read and one to recommend. The elements all tied together well and there are some good surprises. (  ) Nodosaurus | Apr 29, 2009 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0060083255, Mass Market Paperback)Bestselling author Phillip Margolin brings back Portland lawyer Amanda Jaffe for a repeat performance (after Wild Justice) in this mystery about a group of college killers who grow into a cadre of powerful political and business leaders bent on keeping their boyhood adventures concealed--as well as their present-day connection with a gang of cutthroat South American drug lords. There's big biotech money involved, enough to keep the so-called Vaughn Street Glee Club intent on making sure anyone who knows about their plans is silenced. Permanently, if necessary. It's up to Amanda to unmask the reason why the Glee Club is so anxious for her client Jon Dupre, the accused killer of a U.S. senator, to go down for murder. And what she learns about the lengths to which they'll go to keep their secrets, including killing members of their own family, threatens her life as well. Margolin strings a clumsy plot on a weak thread--why three affluent college boys become killers is never adequately explained--and the heroine, whose dogged perseverance is admirable, is otherwise too boring to capture the reader's interest. --Jane Adams(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:34:18 -0500) "Success is fleeting; nobody knows that better than lawyer Amanda Jaffe. She had been the rising star of Portland's legal community, but in a cruel twist of irony, the same case that put her on the map - the Cardoni trial, which pitted Amanda against a brilliant sociopath (in the New York Times bestseller Wild Justice) - had left her traumatized, doubting her instincts, and shunning the limelight." "This reticence ends when Amanda agrees to handle the case no one else will touch. Jon Dupre, who runs an upscale call-girl service, is accused of murdering a U.S. senator. Dupre claims to possess proof of the existence of a secret society of powerful men who have banded together for a commonly held political agenda. The rite of passage that binds them together - the initiation into this powerful brotherhood - is murder.""To Amanda these seem the desperate claims of a man who will lie to save his own skin - until she is pressured to walk away from the case. Determined to put a knife in the heart of the fear and psychological trauma that has plagued her ever since Cardoni, she refuses to abandon her investigation. It's a decision that will place her and those she loves directly in the path of a deadly juggernaut with ambitions that extend all the way to the presidency of the United States."--BOOK JACKET.… (more) |
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