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Confusing at first.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2022

This book was difficult reading at first and almost stopped reading, however I hate doing that as I think it's a waste to start reading a book and not finishing it.Once I got beyond the first few chapters the book,the book had the great writing that Bald acc I is know for.Interesting read.

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Kate Pynch

Mixed Feelings

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2018

I've read every Balldacci novel and short. I have only had iffy feelings over one other.

Every one the I've read took a day and a half. This took three weeks I kept it down and reading something else. The story was so loaded with character I confused two with one another and Dellasandro was not well enough expanded in the beginning to retain who exactly he was.

Secondly I heartilly dilike John Fiske I was actually swimming to believe he's killed his brother.

Then tonight I finally had 183 pages and picked up.

The v ending quarter was beyond much he's writhen the b last couple b of b guests I daughters up until just now to finish it. Too bad the last three pages were added, they weren't needed and I just couldn't buyt the making peace

So in short the b book is v week eyetooth if you Ike many charters I usually don't mind them if the author can keep I then straight. The end is Baldacci at his best.

While he's still one b of my favorite withers and I'm pick up his next. This one is one of two I won't reread.

Sorry, David, if you're reading this, I was disappointed.

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Robert Shurtleff

Confusing at first.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2022

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2022

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More amazing ending than I could have imagined…. Very heartfelt! I loved every bit of this complex story fro beginning to end.

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Ye Olde

Exciting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 5, 2022

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Even though some seemed too far fetched to be believable, I really kept wanting to read on and find out the outcome. I did enjoy the diversion.

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Debra J. Kinney

Simple tendrils of truths for savoring

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2022

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Incredibly addicting, starkly alarming and genuinely soul searing in unexpected ways. The mystery deepens with every page and the reader in simultaneously thrust into the chaos by sheer complicit appreciation. We cannot put down the book - and now must carry the lesson branded in our ethics cells. Justice may be blind - but she burns.

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Another Great Baldacci Work

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2022

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As usual, once more David crafted a most entertaining story. However the most satisfying element to me was the spiritual observation.

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Glen Passmore

this author is phenomenal

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2022

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He tells about very interesting institutions like in this book he talks about the Supreme Court and the way they handle cases; from when it comes to the mail room on. All white spinning a gripping story of murder and intrigue with spectacular plot twists.

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Not Baldacci's best but an entertaining read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2018

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Not the best of Badacci's novels, this murder mystery which takes place in and around the US Supreme Court has a rather convoluted plot. Michael Fisk, a gifted young lawyer and US Supreme Court clerk, is murdered in what is made to look like a robbery. His estranged brother John, a criminal defense lawyer and former cop, decides he will aid the police in solving the crime. From this point forward the story involves politicians, convicts, CIA agents, FBI agents, police, Supreme Court security officers, Supreme Court justices and many others leading to a not very climactic end. I was disappointed, as the conspiracy unfolded, that the cause of the initial and subsequent murders did not carry the weight of the ensuing carnage. In that regard the story seemed out of balance for me and the plot felt forced. Otherwise, the book is entertaining and the characters are interesting and relatable.

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Sue murray

Love and discord of Brothers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 16, 2021

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Balducie brings you into the life of 4 brothers. How they feel about each other and discovery of Respect , loyalty and regrets . Then he throws in a great story of intriguel. It has you anxious to turn the page to find out what happens next. It keeps you guess as too who did what. Really love how he brings everything together keeps you trying to separate the good guy from the bad.

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