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 Dismas August 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a great fan of Dismas Hardy. Every time I wash my black iron skillet I feel him looking over my shoulder telling me to just use salt to clean it.
I wait patiently for each book to come out.
 Bait-and-switch June 17, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For those of you expecting another great Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky novel, don't be fooled by the book jacket. Hardy/Glitzky appear in the first ten pages and then not for another 250-300 pages, reappearing only for the last 110. This book should not really be advertised as featuring these characters. I'm glad I got it from the library or I really would have been unhappy.
I always enjoy Dismas May 29, 2008
This one had a little Dismas in the end and the story in the beginning with no Dismas. Still, I always enjoy the characters and have watched their lives change and progress. I read this one on tape and the audio presenter did a good job.
 Fast-Paced, Hard-Hitting Thriller May 19, 2008
Dismas Hardy has to take over the Evan Scholler case, because Scholler's lawyer has disappeared. Scholler has been accused of killing ex-Navy Seal Ron Nolan. Nolan and Evan became friends in Iraq and Evan told Nolan about his girlfriend Tara back home and once back in the States Nolan courts Tara, even while he's spinning lies and deception to break up the couple.
Nolan is not a nice guy. In Iraq he's shot at and probably killed civilians and he's killed gangbangers in the States and that's not all, he's probably killed a rich Iraqi and his wife. Anyway once he's found dead the police zero in on Evan, who suffered a head injury in Iraq, which causes him partial memory loss. So did he kill Evan? Even he doesn't know, so Dismas Hardy really has his case cut out for him this time.
John Lescroat writes great thrillers and he doesn't disappoint this time. His characters are well drawn and believable and as usual he ends the book with a twist in the tale that you won't see coming.
Lescroart's best April 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is John Lescroart's best mystery and I've read them all. The native Texan and now permanent San Francisco fixture reprises many of his favorite continuing characters, headed by attorney Dismas Hardy and San Francisco P.D. chief of detectives Abe Glitsky, and works them into an intriguing and sometimes shocking four-year tale of murder, intrigue, and money gone berserk tied to a U.S. contractor given free rein over private security operatives in Iraq.
Lt. Evan Scholler, a young San Franciscan whose National Guard squad is haphazardly assigned to Ron Nolan, the contractor's chief field man, almost loses his life due to the mad-dog attitude of the operative's assassin-like reactions. Evan later finds that Nolan turned Scholler's fiancee against him and moved in on her while he was near death in Walter Reed Hospital.
A series of stateside incidents tied to the situation in Iraq triggers a confrontation between Evan and Nolan, and possibly others, winding up with Nolan dying and Scholler tried for his murder. He is found guilty and is sentenced to life.
When three years later an attourney working on Evan's appeal is found missing and his wife suspiciously dies, Dismas and Abe re-enter the story. When the appeal file is turned over to Hardy, the Iraqi connection and the private contractor return to the tale.
The only blemish comes for about thirty pages when Lescroart fails to engage totally believable actions and reactions that he had crafted. But the best-selling author/country-rock composer/singer returns to his solid style of the first 300 pages. Then his tale plays out to a white-knuckled, brainy climax. Excellent reading.
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