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Summary: What a baook!!
Review: Joseph Finder has doen it again. This book was really great. He definately did his homework on this one and it shows. The story was so incredible that I couldn't put it down. I haven't felt this way about a story in a long time. Definately a must read.
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Summary: Superior suspense!
Review: High Crimes is a driving high-wire drama mixing love, war and law. A trully engrossing thriller, I devoured the book in two days, unwilling to put it down. Finder displays a superior combination of Clancy's grasp of technical detail (without allowing his narrative to be bogged down) and Ludlum's knack for a driven protagonist (without resorting to excessive italics or graphic carnage). Moreover, his characters are complicated yet clearly defined, and he economically draws strong visual pictures of each scene. A high-profile screen adaptation seems inevitable.
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Summary: A winner!
Review: I read a lot of this genre, and this is far and away the best I've read in a long time. Smart, elegantly written, urbane and classy, brilliantly set up and executed. Book of the month club named it a main selection, and Hollywood's making a movie out of it, and this has "winner" all over it.
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Summary: Not deep -- but fast and scary
Review: Fasten your seat belts for this one. You got a professional woman (tough-talking, but you get used to it), her too good to be true hubby, the requisate cute kid...and plot twists that come at you so fast and so unexpected you could get whiplash. Is he a good guy? a bad guy? is he a liar? Reads like a movie, which is good and bad- fast fast fast, unbearably exciting, but not a lot of texture or stopping for reflection. Also really well plotted. Best potboiler I've read in years. It's not Proust, but I never liked Proust anyway.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I just got the book from Amazon yesterday and finished it this morning in one sitting. It's really, really great. I hardly ever read thrillers but this one for some reason just took my attention and when I started it I couldn't stop, I loved Claire and her sister Jackie and Grimes. As a working woman and a mom I totally identified with Claire and liked the way she's strong and sexy at the same time, and funny. A totally great character! I liked Tom, her husband, but then I wasn't sure, but I was rooting for them to get there happy lives back. I was totally floored at the end! Everyone who likes suspense novels, or who just likes a good story, should read this book!!
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Summary: Way cool!
Review: Finished this book when there was a NPR report on about "high crimes" in the White House, very timely. Better than any of Grisham. It keeps you reading and reading, totally intense and believeable and very very scary. Definately one of the best novels of the last few years!
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Summary: I love this novel!
Review: I love this book! I picked it up because I saw it was about a Harvard Law Professor defending her husband, and I love legal thrillers. But this was way, way more. The first chapter grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. You're with Claire on the whole ride, finding out that her husband Tom isn't who she thought he was, then when he gets arrested, trying to decide if you believe him or not. High Crimes is like Jagged Edge meets A Few Good Men meets Deceived. It moves like a movie, it's lightning fast, and it stays with you -- I can't get it out of my head. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Finder's best novel yet.
Review: Intelligent, suspenseful courtroom thriller from a great novelist. A family drama as well -- will be appreciated by men and women alike (which is rare for this genre). This novel will keep you up all night, so don't read it the night before an important meeting. Terrific!!
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Summary: A great, heart-pounding, page-turning can't-put-it-down read
Review: Perhap's Finder's best work. This novel is full of plot twists and turns, suspense to keep the reader up half the night! But it also is a family novel, kind of like Miller's "The Good Mother" crossed with a Grisham novel (only written _far_ better than that hack Grisham). RECOMMENDED!!!!!
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Summary: Few Titles Compare, Absolutely Genius!
Review: As someone who despises the corruption far too often found in American government and fascinated with the workings of our legal system - both civilian and otherwise - this title really was a grand slam with me. It was entertaining while still being down to earth and representative of the issues any trial lawyer with scruples must wrestle with.The pace at which this title keeps the reader turning pages is ferocious and accuracy of the legal events in the title is astounding. At the same time, a sense of realism and a sense of normalcy is maintained throughout. At several times the reader is startled by unexpected events to keep him going. But perhaps the most startling event of all is the ending. In nearly all cases... the knowledgeable reader already has a good idea what the ending will be before reading 75% of the title and is rarely shocked by the ending. There are plenty of hairpin turns and sharp corners in this book, none are more abrupt than the ending which leave the reader both satisfied and puzzled.
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