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314 pages, Paperback
First published May 3, 2016
I've read three of Cavanagh's books in the past two weeks and The Defense is equally a gripping edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring our hero, con artist turned lawyer, Eddie Flynn. If you like Jack Reacher then this series is a must-read!
I had put my life as a hustler behind me. Now I was glad, glad that I still possessed those skills.Eddie Flynn has had a rough year. He stopped practicing law after his last case ended in tragedy. His wife left him. He doesn’t get to see his 10-year-old daughter as often as he’d like. He’s got a drinking problem. But none of that compares to the very bad morning Flynn has when Olek Volchek, the head of the New York Russian mob, crashes his breakfast, straps a bomb to his back, and forces Flynn into an impossible arrangement: defend Volchek in a murder trial starting that morning and plant a bomb in the courtroom that will kill the state’s star witness, or else Volchek will kill Flynn’s daughter.