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DEAD EVEN by Brad Meltzer

"Polished, High Stakes Courtroom Drama by Brad Meltzer"

By: Brad Meltzer

Genres: Thriller Political | Thriller Legal

Posted: January 8, 2011

When nervous, headstrong Sara Tate starts her first day at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, she doesn't expect to receive notice that she is in danger of her losing her precious, brand-spankin' new job. With her special assistant Guff in tow, Sarah foolishly snags a seemingly light burglary case destined for another lawyer. In a decision that changes the course of her and, her dang-near perfect lawyer husband Jared's rather ordinary lives. The pressure mounts as Jared becomes the counsel for the defense, witnesses start getting scared, and backed-up threats start being issued. It's a race to the end with their love's lives at stake.

I loved watching the verbal sparring, subtle trickery, and chemistry between Sara and Jared. They bring a fiery spark, in and out of the courtroom. Brad Meltzer does a terrific job of portraying a couple that is very much in love and determined, despite it and because of it, to do their very best.

Snappy, engrossing and polished, Meltzer's latest legal thriller reads like a summer big-screen blockbuster or a really good episode of Law and Order.

Book Summary

Lawyer Sara Tate is in danger of losing her new job with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office if she doesn't get noticed fast. Smart and tough-a fighter who makes things happen-she grabs a high-profile burglary case that could make her career. There are two problems: Sara's husband, Jared, is the attorney for the defense . . . and she's been warned that if she does not get a conviction, Jared will be killed. What she doesn't know is that her husband has received a similar threat. Unless his client walks, Sara's life is over.

Unaware of the stakes on the other side and forced to keep their secrets from each other, husband and wife become bitter adversaries, locked in a vicious head-to-head battle in the courtroom and at home. And there can be no victor in this struggle.No matter who wins . . . someone dies.

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Dead Even by Brad Meltzer

Dead Even

by: Brad Meltzer

HarperCollins
November 1, 2010
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Featuring: Jared Tate; Sara Tate
511 pages
ISBN: 0061978124
EAN: 9780061978128
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)

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