Dead and bloated. That’s how the sheriff found attorney Lou Mason’s partner, Richard Sullivan. A dead partner is bad for business. Real bad.
The Kansas City law firm, Sullivan & Christenson, where Lou Mason has worked for the past three months specializes in protecting clients from certain taxes by merging and acquiring their assets. When Mason discovers that Sullivan’s moral compass is a little off, he begins to re-think working for the firm. He tells himself he’ll think it over at the upcoming firm retreat. While at the retreat, Sheriff Kelly Holt interrupts his poolside siesta to tell him his partner is dead.
The death of his partner sets off an avalanche of events that culminate in Mason being framed for a series of crimes he didn’t commit. To save himself, Mason uncovers high-level corruption, takes on organized crime, and is targeted for murder. Follow Mason as he fights to stay alive.
Action Packed Kansas City Thriller I am absolutely a fan of fiction set in places that I live or places that I’ve been. I’m new to the Kansas City area and I just think it’s the coolest thing to read stories set here in my new city. Whether you live here or not, you get a nice tour of our city, it’s landmarks, and a bit of the history surrounding some of our neighborhoods. And it’s not forced or contrived, it all fits nicely into the story. As far as the who-done-it goes, Joel Goldman always keeps you guessing and I didn’t…
Great First Novel! In a rarity on my part, I read this book in one day. Excellently complex first novel with a broad cast of characters that pulled me forward and kept me going; like an onion, layers of plots and subplots are revealed and eventually pull together in a satisfying whole. A real page-turner with plenty of action and many surprising twists and turns along the way driven by the wise-cracking protagonist and a great supporting cast. While not a courtroom novel, we still get a look at back-room…
A great read Originally published in 2002, this new and improved release of Joel Goldman’s debut legal thriller introduces attorney Lou Mason in a fast paced mystery that is hard to put down. The legal thrills are not limited to a courtroom but instead focus this top notch spell binder on a cast of characters operating both inside and outside the law. There are no wasted words in Goldman’s writing. Each describes and defines a character or the circumstances swirling around them in such a way that the…