Book Reviews

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

         An old man. a young man, and life;s greatest lesson...
  Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient, and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through
   For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Tuesdays With Morrie is a magical chronical of their time together during the waning months of Morrie's life. In it, he shares Morrie's lasting gift to the world...

  I don't know what possessed me to buy this book, maybe a memory of Papa , my someone. It is not a typical read for me. However, the wisdoms imparted in this book are both timeless and simplistic, deeply moving and enlightening. ...

Act of Revenge by Robert Tanenbaum

Chicago Tribune), chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp and his wife, private security consultant Marlene Ciampi, are caught in the deadliest crossfire of their careers, an escalating war between New York's Mafia crime syndicate and its lethally powerful Chinese gangs. This time, though, the stakes have never been more dangerous, for their twelve-year-old daughter is the target...

   Mr. Tanebaum is easily one of my favorites. His mastery of this of the fictional crime genre is beyond reproach. Excellent book, excellent series, read'em all...

Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow

  His first two bestsellers, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, wer among the most spectacularly acclaimed blockbusters of recent years. Now, with PLEADING GUILTY, Scott Turow has created what may be his most compelling character in his most accomplished story to date
   Returning to the now-renowned locale of Kindle County, Turow gives us Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the county's most powerful law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the tail of a colleague, his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with over five million dollars of a client's money. Mack will descend into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city...taking you with him on his final, desperate, and courageous crusade to reinvent himself from the depths of his shattered soul...

  Well conceived and well written. I found the book very entertaining and easily read. A good break from your standard who-dunnit...

Justice Denied by Robert Tanenbaum

  A diplomat is gunned down in midtown Manhattan. A girl is raped and thrown out a tenement window in Alphabet City. A Mafia muscle man is running rinds around the law. A beautiful Yuppie's career is cut short by a knife. In a city of political terrorists, paid killers, murderous muggers, and shysters who can spring the scum of the earth, Homicide Bureau Chief Butch Karp has his work cut out for him as he joins forces with hid ferociously dedicated wife and fellow A.D.A., Marlene Ciampi. Together they take on every dirty-dealing felon from the lower depths of a high-rise hell to the pits of a Big Apple judicial system rotten to the core...

  Intriguing book by one of my favorite authors. Greatly impressed by the character growth throughout this book and the whole series. Makes you want to be a lawyer...

The Inner Sanctum by Stephen Frey

  David Mitchell, fast-rising portfolio manager at the exclusive Sagamore Investnebt Managing Group, has just been handed his future on a golden platter. If all goes according to plan, a struggling plane-manufacturing company will win a coveted government defense contract... and David himself will become very, very rich. Gaining the trust of IRS agent Jesse Hayes is a critical part of thescheme. But the unwitting recruit has troubles of her own. Her boss has been found dead, and incriminating tax files level suspicion at a high-profile senatorial candidate
  As the pieces of an explosive puzzle fall into place, david and Jesse realize they are pawns in a top-secret billion-dollar conspiracy stretching from the frenzy of Wall Street to the darkest corridors of Washington D.C., where a shocking military secret lies hidden
   and where the lines between money and politics, and life and death are razor thin....

  Fast-paced action and shocking conclusions are trademarks of Frey's novels. Has been called the "Grisham of Wall Street". I think it lends itself perfectly to a screenplay. Highly recommended...

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