Présentation de l'éditeur
Sara Tate is a prosecuting attorney with the Manhattan DA's office; her husband, Jared Lynch, a rising star in a Wall Street Law firm. They have a wonderful, happy, high-spirited, non-competitive marriage - until they accidentally find themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom, and their relationship starts to fall apart.
Worse, they are threatened by interested parties on each side of the case. The result is obvious: one of them will lose. The other one will die.
Revue de presse
Watch out John Grisham - there's a young pretender out there. The excellent thriller DEAD EVEN . . . has more double crosses and ruthless villains than an episode of Dallas. Great (
Prima)
'Just when you thought there were no more changes to be rung on the legal thriller, Meltzer follows up his bestselling inside look at the Supreme Court (The Tenth Justice) with this sleek, suspenseful, only slightly unbelievable story about two young New York lawyers in love and danger. . . . Definitely compelling tale of legal and extralegal adventure'Publishers Weekly
'A very aptly titled gripper that will have Grisham slapping his wife's wrist in pique over the breakfast toast when he discovers Melzter's plot for his second novel . . . Author Meltzer is an attorney himself, which lends the novel's dialogue a sparkling undercurrent of real-life chitchat, not to mention the mutual sabre-sharpening that readers will quickly pick up on and enjoy as a bonus'Kirkus Reviews
Breakneck . . . an action-packed read (
Frances Fyfield in Mail on Sunday)
"Races along...deftly written...haunting...Meltzer is so good."- Entertainment Weekly
A gem of a plot...so strong...breezes along in 'high gear'. Highlyrecommended."- Chicago Tribune
Terrific...Reads like a Tracy-Hepburn movie directed by SamPeckinpah...complete with cliffhangers at the end of every chapter."- Newsday
"Rachets up the tension."- San Francisco Chronicle
"A truly scary ending."- Newsday
"As he demonstrated in his first novel, The Tenth Justice...Meltzer has agift for revealing the heart-stopping intensity of legal systems underextreme pressure."- San Francisco Chronicle
"Meltzer does it again with...a different twist...The book is well-craftedand will hold your interest -- just like John Grisham's books, but with aYankee twang."- Chattanooga Free Press
"Meltzer comes back with an even stronger effort that should catch the eyeof every John Grisham devotee."- Chicago Tribune
"Sleek, suspenseful...definitely compelling."-Publishers Weekly
"Deftly written dialogue and characters."-Entertainment Weekly
"A page-turner."-The Oakland Press
'An absolute page-turner . . . [A] shocking Catch-22 situation'News-Herald (Detroit)
'Gets the blood pumping'The New York Times
'Breakneck . . . an action-packed read'Mail on Sunday
'A great story with good writing and lashings of black comedy'Peterborough Evening Telegraph
'Meltzer has really come into his own as a formidable force in the legal thriller genre . . . A rocking good read that will keep you ripping through the pages until the very last' - ? Magazine, Dublin
'Sparky, sexy, and above all, a new template for a document entitled "pageturner" ' - The List
'Watch out John Grisham - there's a young pretender out there. The excellent thriller DEAD EVEN . . . has more double crosses and ruthless villains than an episode of Dallas. Great' - Prima
Biographie de l'auteur
Brad Meltzer is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller,
The Book of Fate, and five other bestselling thrillers:
The Tenth Justice,
Dead Even,
The First Counsel,
The Millionaires and
The Zero Game. He is also one of the co-creators of the American TV show,
Jack & Bobby, and is the writer of the #1 selling graphic novels,
Identity Crisis and
Justice League of America. He is also the host of
Brad Meltzer's Decoded for the History Channel, the second season of which airs in October 2011. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Colu
