Beach Road
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594832250 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 435 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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. His sports glory days and his one true love are long in the past, but he gets second chances at personal and professional redemption when three locals are gunned down, apparently in the aftermath of racial tensions arising from a heated pickup game of hoops. Patterson readers know to expect a surprise ending, but he leaves too few possibilities for many to be genuinely fooled. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Patterson shows signs of having gone to the well too often in this slapdash collaboration with de Jonge, his coauthor on The Beach House (2002). Fans can only hope that Patterson soon returns to the level he achieved with h
. Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an award-winning American author. Thompson in the early 1990s, Patterson came up with the slogan "Toys R Us Kid". Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, now working as a private psychologist and government consultant, are the most popular books among Patterson readers. Shortly after his success with Along Came A Spider he retired from the firm and devoted his time to writing. James B. The novels featuring his character, Alex Cross,
"Interesting twist" according to Love Books. I remember reading this book when it was first published in 2006, and I remembered that there was a really shocking twist at the end, but I didn't remember all the details. So I decided to read it again. I'm glad I did. I'm of two minds with this book. It had some interesting characters, but I wish that they had been more fully drawn. I enjoyed the premise of the book, the former ball player turned lawyer, never really living up to hi. Great.until the final 10 Chapters. This is a typical Patterson novel, in that it is packed with short chapters (117 in all), full of suspense, mystery, and intrigue. This page turner is truly exceptional until the rug is pulled out from under the reader during the climax.At first, this book reads like a Grisham hybrid, as a down and out attorney takes on a case in which he is most certainly the underdog. In fact, it is so much like a Grisham novel, that one chapter in . False Advertised Amazon Customer The book is awesome I love James Patterson so much I rated this 1 star because the person I bought this from advertised this as new and the book looks very very worn out and used so 1 star for false advertising.
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavys client list is woefully smalloccasional real estate closings barely keeps him in paper clips. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. The crime turns the glittering playground of the super-rich into a blazing inferno. But payback is a bitchespecially from the rich. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime. Written with the unstoppable velocity and head-twisting surprises that only James Patterson can master, BEACH ROAD will leave listeners reeling long afterwards.. When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. His client is the perfect fall guyunless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set. Dunleavys client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. With the entire nations eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that