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Summary: Excellent thriller with a strong character in The Teacher
Review: A brilliantly readable piece of work. Doesn't seem like only a second book
Personally I feel the book is made more readable
beacause of the brilliant chracterisation of the Teacher,
the Mafia fixit man.
His sheer brilliance and personality make u want to find out more and more about him
What makes him Tick is what will keep u going.
Buy it
Read it
and thank me later
email at aptechch@giaspn01.vsnl.net.in
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Summary: Makes me shiver just remembering...
Review: A sympathetic, realistic heroine, and a villain perfectly despicable for veiling his every action in metaphysical justification and calling it philosophy... Even Louie Boffano, charming bad guy, looks like Mother Teresa next to his mesmerizing hireling the Teacher
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Summary: Stunning suspense, engaging heros, highly gratifying climax.
Review: An ordinary woman -- a creative, quirky, very likable single-mom-as-artist -- battles for her son and her own soul when she lands on the jury of a mafia don's murder trial. She is threatened, stalked, and wooed by one of the scariest sociopaths in modern literature: the Teacher, a suave and sophisticated hit man who tells her she'll have to watch her son die if she can't persuade her fellow jurors to hand in an acquittal.
The trial ends, the guilty mobster goes free . . . and the nightmare has just begun.
A fascinating story with a seamless plot, driven fast and hard by sharply drawn characters and powerful themes of justice, love, and revenge.
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Summary: A SPINE-TINGLING SUSPENSEFUL TALE
Review: Don't pick it up unless you're prepared to not put it down. With the first page The Juror grabs the reader, taking him on a spine-tingling suspenseful trail of tips and tricks as the artfully crafted plot thickens and excitement builds. Annie Laird, a single mother and aspiring sculptor, is Juror 224 in the case of the people vs. mob boss Louis Buffano. Innocent yet intelligent, Annie agrees to serve, in part, because she has always taught her 12-year-old son, Oliver, to be responsible. Before the trial's opening statements, Annie falls under the spell of an urbane art dealer who professes an interest in her work. On their first date she is told that she must return a not guilty verdict or else. The man threatening her is actually known as the Teacher, a brilliantly ruthless mob thug who begins to electronically follow Annie's every move and conversation. The excitement mounts as Annie tries to think of ways to protect her son and outsmart her dangerous predator. This legal thriller is top-rate entertainment, packed with superbly honed characters, especially the treacherous Teacher.
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Summary: A SPINE-TINGLING SUSPENSEFUL TALE
Review: Don't pick it up unless you're prepared to not put it down. With the first page The Juror grabs the reader, taking him on a spine-tingling suspenseful trail of tips and tricks as the artfully crafted plot thickens and excitement builds. Annie Laird, a single mother and aspiring sculptor, is Juror 224 in the case of the people vs. mob boss Louis Buffano. Innocent yet intelligent, Annie agrees to serve, in part, because she has always taught her 12-year-old son, Oliver, to be responsible. Before the trial's opening statements, Annie falls under the spell of an urbane art dealer who professes an interest in her work. On their first date she is told that she must return a not guilty verdict or else. The man threatening her is actually known as the Teacher, a brilliantly ruthless mob thug who begins to electronically follow Annie's every move and conversation. The excitement mounts as Annie tries to think of ways to protect her son and outsmart her dangerous predator. This legal thriller is top-rate entertainment, packed with superbly honed characters, especially the treacherous Teacher.
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Summary: Filled with suspense and intrigue.
Review: George Dawes Green dropped me into his world of intrigue and suspense and kept me there to the very last page. The day after I completed the final chapter, I viewed the movie and was disappointed in both the dialogue
and the characters lack of depth . The book was more intense and the storyline held my focus much more than the screen version. Once you spiral into the realm of the psychotic behavior of Green's character
"the Teacher", I believe you will be held there until the end. I highly recommend this book
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Summary: Stylish, worthwhile followup to Caveman
Review: George Dawes Green, The Juror (Warner, 1995) George Dawes Green wrote The Caveman's Valentine, which netted him the Edgar. He then followed it up with the euqally acclaimed The Juror, and proceeded to drop off the face of the earth, foiling a carefully-plotted career as a bestselling mystery novelist. Go figure. Based on the quality of his first two books, a whole lot of folks wish he'd come back. Green's second novel introduces us to The Teacher, a part-time mob enforcer, Taoist, and grower of rare orchids whose present job entails tampering with a jury to make sure his part-time employer doesn't go to jail. Problem is, the Teacher starts getting emotionally involved the the juror, and the two of them end up doing a rather dysfunctional dance that ends up with a whole lot of people dying. It's an absorbing novel, and a quick read. The characters are strongly drawn and identifiable, and the plot is excellently paced. The book's main flaw is that it relies a bit much on coincidences (of the "of all the gin joints in the world..." variety) that stretch credibility too far. But mystery novels rely on coincidence, and so we have to be willing to forgive Green in order to bask in the luxury of his writing. And it is certainly worth forgiving him, as the characters he creates here will be with you long after you turn the last page. *** 1/2
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Summary: Terrifying real life horror book
Review: I don't usually read this type of book, but I did not return my card to my book club in time and received it. I could have returned it to the book club but decided to read it. I was terrorized by the reality in this book. I could not put it down. I read until 4:00a.m. when I finished it. Then I went and hugged my child. The author made me feel that this could happen in the tainted world we live in. His characters were so alive. As a single mother, I could identify with the main character. If my child's life was ever threatened, I would do the same thing this mother did. She went from being a civil minded woman to a woman with a vengenance! I cheered at the end but I cried and was scared through most of the book. Sorry but I have to go check on my loved ones now
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Summary: I read it in one day
Review: I loved the story. The only thing I could find fault with was there were too many unrealistic coincidences. If you can put that aside, the story was scary to think it could happen to you. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: I'm baffled at the positive reviews
Review: I read it...voluntarily. It wasn't recommended to me, but I found it lying around, and I had the time. When it didn't drag on in excessive details, it was too vague, too wordy, too something in every aspect. I compare this book to Milk Money (By the way, you're better off staring at a wall for 2 hours than watching that movie). Okay, I'll give it something. I did watch the movie before I read the book, so I did know the ending, and recognized most parts...Jeez, I hope that's it, because, if its not, you people (for the most part) are quite misled.
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