Interesting plot and good ending.

I knew there had to be a twist but was 3/4th finished until I began to have an idea.
Could not put it down.

Positive: The courtroom scenes were riveting with witty and sparkling dialogue. This made up over one-third of the book. It raised my rating to 4 stars; it was page turning.

The rest wasn’t page-turning and ranged from well-defined characters giving out sarcastic comments to hackneyed action scenes and soapy romance. The ending seemed to dissolve into two possibilities, and by then I was hardly interested.

Just as we do not want to see how sausage is made, just to enjoy it with our pancakes, the internal workings of the FBI and of long term politicians are things the layman would be disgusted to know.

Paul Madrisni is an attorney defending his sister in law in a murder trial which should never have happened; and it only did because the guys in smoke filled rooms made it happen for reasons of their own: basically their own greed, insecurity, and guilt over the money they had stolen and the deals they had made though they should not have.

A typo, a clerical error triggered murders, faked murders and deaths, and the end of two careers. It was a powerful read.