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"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture is a vintage pool table. He drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. Sebastian defends people other lawyers won't go near: a drug-addled, tattooed kid rumored to be in a satanic cult, who is accused of molesting and murdering two little girls; a vicious crime lord on death row; a homeowner arrested for shooting at a SWAT team that mistakenly invaded his house. Why these clients? Because he believes everyone is entitled to a fair trial, even if he, Sebastian, has to cheat to secure one. He hates injustice, doesn't like insurance companies, banks, or big corporations; he distrusts all levels of government and laughs at the justice system's notions of ethical behavior" --… (lisätietoja)
MAIN CHARACTERS: Sebastian Rudd – Lawyer Partner – Rudd’s assistant
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION: How I picked it. It was next in line of my John Grisham reads. What it was about: A Lawyer who defends criminals and the criminals he defends. He works out of his van, and lives out of motels. What I thought: I’m so glad that Grisham enjoys writing! He and Michael Connelly are tied for favorite contemporary authors.
AUTHOR: John Grisham: From Wikipedia: “Grisham, the second of five children, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Ray Grisham.[6] His father was a construction worker and a cotton farmer, and his mother was a homemaker.[9] When Grisham was four years old, his family settled in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee.[6] As a child, he wanted to be a baseball player.[8] As noted in the foreword to Calico Joe, Grisham gave up playing baseball at the age of 18, after a game in which a pitcher aimed a beanball at him, and narrowly missed doing the young Grisham grave harm. Although Grisham's parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and prepare for college.[1] He drew on his childhood experiences for his novel A Painted House.[6] Grisham started working for a plant nursery as a teenager, watering bushes for $1.00 an hour. He was soon promoted to a fence crew for $1.50 an hour. He wrote about the job: "there was no future in it". At 16, Grisham took a job with a plumbing contractor but says he "never drew inspiration from that miserable work".[10] Through one of his father's contacts, he managed to find work on a highway asphalt crew in Mississippi at age 17. It was during this time that an unfortunate incident got him "serious" about college. A fight with gunfire broke out among the crew causing Grisham to run to a nearby restroom to find safety. He did not come out until after the police had detained the perpetrators. He hitchhiked home and started thinking about college. His next work was in retail, as a salesclerk in a department store men's underwear section, which he described as "humiliating". By this time, Grisham was halfway through college. Planning to become a tax lawyer, he was soon overcome by "the complexity and lunacy" of it. He decided to return to his hometown as a trial lawyer.[11] He attended the Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi and later attended Delta State University in Cleveland.[6] Grisham changed colleges three times before completing a degree.[1] He eventually graduated from Mississippi State University in 1977, receiving a B.S. degree in accounting. He later enrolled in the University of Mississippi School of Law to become a tax lawyer, but his interest shifted to general civil litigation. He graduated in 1981 with a J.D. degree.[6] After leaving law school, he participated in some missionary work in Brazil, under the First Baptist Church of Oxford.[12]”
NARRATOR: Mark Deakins: From Goodreads— “Mark Deakins Born in Spokane, Washington, The United States November 30, 1962 edit data Mark Deakins is an actor, known for The Devil's Advocate (1997), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and The City (1995).
Mark Deakins is a celebrated, multiple award-winning audiobook narrator. In 2010 Mark received the Best Voice and Best Audiobook award from AudioFile Magazine for his performance in Colonel Roosevelt, which was published by Random House Audio. He is also the recipient of 7 AudioFile Earphones Awards and received Izzard Ink Publishing Audiobook of the Year for 2015 for his performance in Bassam and the Seven Secret Scrolls.
Some of Mark’s other noted Audiobooks include The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner and Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult, both of which are published by Random House Audio. Mark’s complete audiography of 80 audiobooks can be found at Audible.com.
In addition, he has appeared in numerous films and television programs—everything from the Star Trek franchise to indie films to soap operas. He has voiced virtually countless television commercials and quite a number of video games. For many years, he was the voice of the Sundance Channel and E! Entertainment’s Style Network. Currently, he is the voice of Porsche.
Mark’s educational background includes a BA in Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University and classical acting training at the University of California, San Diego’s MFA theatre program.
Soon after finishing his education, Mark began his professional acting career in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Tony Award-winning Broadway play, The Grapes of Wrath, which also played to great acclaim at the Royal National Theatre in London, England. He has acted in numerous productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival, New York’s Public Theatre, Princeton’s McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage and Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theatre among others.
Notable Los Angeles productions include Peter Hall’s Shakespeare trilogy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, and Romeo and Juliet at the Ahmanson Theatre, Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Agamemnon at the Getty Villa Theatre and other roles at The Geffen Playhouse, A Noise Within, and The Colony Theatre. He lives with his wife, his three sons and his dog Max in Encino, CA.”
Mark does an excellent narration here!!!!
GENRE: Fiction; Literature; Suspense; Thriller
TIME FRAME: Contemporary (2015)
SUBJECTS: Lawyers; Criminals; Courts DEDICATION: Not found
SAMPLE QUOTATION: From Part 1: Chapter 1:
“These nights I find myself sleeping in cheap motel rooms that change each week. I’m not trying to save money; rather, I’m just trying to stay alive. There are plenty of people who’d like to kill me right now, and a few of them have been quite vocal. They don’t tell you in law school that one day you may find yourself defending a person charged with a crime so heinous that otherwise peaceful citizens feel driven to take up arms and threaten to kill the accused, his lawyer, and even the judge. But I’ve been threatened before. It’s part of being a rogue lawyer, a subspecialty of the profession that I more or less fell into ten years ago. When I finished law school, jobs were scarce. I reluctantly took a part-time position in the City’s public defender’s office. From there I landed in a small, unprofitable firm that handled only criminal defense. After a few years, that firm blew up and I was on my own, out on the street with plenty of others, scrambling to make a buck. One case put me on the map. I can’t say it made me famous because, seriously, how can you say a lawyer is famous in a city of a million people? Plenty of local hacks think they’re famous. They smile from billboards as they beg for your bankruptcy and swagger in television ads as they seem deeply concerned about your personal injuries, but they’re forced to pay for their own publicity. Not me. The cheap motels change each week. I’m in the middle of a trial in a dismal, backwater, redneck town called Milo, two hours from where I live in the City. I am defending a brain-damaged eighteen-year-old dropout who’s charged with killing two little girls in one of the most evil crimes I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen plenty. My clients are almost always guilty, so I don’t waste a lot of time wringing my hands about whether they get what they deserve. In this case, though, Gardy is not guilty, not that it matters. It does not. What’s important in Milo these days is that Gardy gets convicted and sentenced to death and executed as soon as possible so that the town can feel better about itself and move on. Move on to where, exactly? Hell if I know, nor do I care. This place has been moving backward for fifty years, and one lousy verdict will not change its course. I’ve read and heard it said that Milo needs “closure,” whatever that means. You’d have to be an idiot to believe this town will somehow grow and prosper and become more tolerant as soon as Gardy gets the needle. My job is layered and complicated, and at the same time it’s quite simple. I’m being paid by the State to provide a first-class defense to a defendant charged with capital murder, and this requires me to fight and claw and raise hell in a courtroom where no one is listening. Gardy was essentially convicted the day he was arrested, and his trial is only a formality. The dumb and desperate cops trumped up the charges and fabricated the evidence. The prosecutor knows this but has no spine and is up for reelection next year. The judge is asleep. The jurors are basically nice, simple people, wide-eyed at the process and ever so anxious to believe the lies their proud authorities are producing on the witness stand. Milo has its share of cheap motels but I can’t stay there. I would be lynched or flayed or burned at the stake, or if I’m lucky a sniper would hit me between the eyes and it would be over in a flash. The state police are providing protection during the trial, but I get the clear impression these guys are just not into it. They view me the same way most people do. I’m a long-haired roguish zealot sick enough to fight for the rights of child killers and the like. My current motel is a Hampton Inn located twenty-five minutes from Milo. It costs $60 a night and the State will reimburse me. Next door is Partner, a hulking, heavily armed guy who wears black suits and takes me everywhere. Partner is my driver, bodyguard, confidant, paralegal, caddie, and only friend. I earned his loyalty when a jury found him not guilty of killing an undercover narcotics officer. We walked out of the courtroom arm in arm and have been inseparable ever since. On at least two occasions, off-duty cops have tried to kill him. On one occasion, they came after me. We’re still standing. Or perhaps I should say we’re still ducking.”
RATING:. 5
STARTED READING – FINISHED READING 12-25-2022 to 12-30-2022 ( )
Sebastian Rudd is a defense lawyer and he takes the cases no one else wants. He has a kid with a woman he never should have married and they don't get along. ( )
Sebastian Rudd is not your typical lawyer. He works out of a van and has a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, and only one employee, his driver. Sebastian defends people other lawyers won’t touch. ( )
Sebastian Rudd is one heck of a rogue lawyer. I like a character who goes against the grain and pushes the limits, especially when dealing with the criminal justice system. While he operates outside of the box, he advocates for people and fights the system when the system is wrong. He is a humanly flawed character and he knows his weaknesses. Rudd defends some interesting individuals that often leads to him into dangerous situations. This was a bit of a different Grisham novel compared to his previous and I really enjoyed it. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
My name is Sebastian Rudd, and though I am a well-known street lawyer, you will not see my name on billboards, on bus benches, or screaming at you from the yellow pages.
Sitaatit
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Like so many, this trial is not about the truth; it's about winning.
The road to justice is filled with barriers and land mines, most of them created by men and women who claim to be seeking justice.
Viimeiset sanat
Erotteluhuomautus
Julkaisutoimittajat
Kirjan kehujat
Alkuteoksen kieli
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture is a vintage pool table. He drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. Sebastian defends people other lawyers won't go near: a drug-addled, tattooed kid rumored to be in a satanic cult, who is accused of molesting and murdering two little girls; a vicious crime lord on death row; a homeowner arrested for shooting at a SWAT team that mistakenly invaded his house. Why these clients? Because he believes everyone is entitled to a fair trial, even if he, Sebastian, has to cheat to secure one. He hates injustice, doesn't like insurance companies, banks, or big corporations; he distrusts all levels of government and laughs at the justice system's notions of ethical behavior" --
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS:
Print: COPYRIGHT: 10/20/2015; PUBLISHER: Doubleday, First edition; ISBN 978-0385539432; PAGES 344; Unabridged
Digital: Yes
*Audio: COPYRIGHT: 10/20/2015; ISBN: 9780553399844; PUBLISHER: Books on Tape; DURATION: 11:18:52; PARTS: 9; File Size: 326283 KB; Unabridged; (Overdrive: LAPL)
Feature Film or tv: No
SERIES: No
MAIN CHARACTERS:
Sebastian Rudd – Lawyer
Partner – Rudd’s assistant
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
How I picked it. It was next in line of my John Grisham reads.
What it was about: A Lawyer who defends criminals and the criminals he defends. He works out of his van, and lives out of motels.
What I thought: I’m so glad that Grisham enjoys writing! He and Michael Connelly are tied for favorite contemporary authors.
AUTHOR:
John Grisham:
From Wikipedia:
“Grisham, the second of five children, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Ray Grisham.[6] His father was a construction worker and a cotton farmer, and his mother was a homemaker.[9] When Grisham was four years old, his family settled in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee.[6]
As a child, he wanted to be a baseball player.[8] As noted in the foreword to Calico Joe, Grisham gave up playing baseball at the age of 18, after a game in which a pitcher aimed a beanball at him, and narrowly missed doing the young Grisham grave harm.
Although Grisham's parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and prepare for college.[1] He drew on his childhood experiences for his novel A Painted House.[6] Grisham started working for a plant nursery as a teenager, watering bushes for $1.00 an hour. He was soon promoted to a fence crew for $1.50 an hour. He wrote about the job: "there was no future in it". At 16, Grisham took a job with a plumbing contractor but says he "never drew inspiration from that miserable work".[10]
Through one of his father's contacts, he managed to find work on a highway asphalt crew in Mississippi at age 17. It was during this time that an unfortunate incident got him "serious" about college. A fight with gunfire broke out among the crew causing Grisham to run to a nearby restroom to find safety. He did not come out until after the police had detained the perpetrators. He hitchhiked home and started thinking about college. His next work was in retail, as a salesclerk in a department store men's underwear section, which he described as "humiliating". By this time, Grisham was halfway through college. Planning to become a tax lawyer, he was soon overcome by "the complexity and lunacy" of it. He decided to return to his hometown as a trial lawyer.[11]
He attended the Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi and later attended Delta State University in Cleveland.[6] Grisham changed colleges three times before completing a degree.[1] He eventually graduated from Mississippi State University in 1977, receiving a B.S. degree in accounting. He later enrolled in the University of Mississippi School of Law to become a tax lawyer, but his interest shifted to general civil litigation. He graduated in 1981 with a J.D. degree.[6]
After leaving law school, he participated in some missionary work in Brazil, under the First Baptist Church of Oxford.[12]”
NARRATOR:
Mark Deakins:
From Goodreads—
“Mark Deakins
Born in Spokane, Washington, The United States November 30, 1962
edit data
Mark Deakins is an actor, known for The Devil's Advocate (1997), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and The City (1995).
Mark Deakins is a celebrated, multiple award-winning audiobook narrator. In 2010 Mark received the Best Voice and Best Audiobook award from AudioFile Magazine for his performance in Colonel Roosevelt, which was published by Random House Audio. He is also the recipient of 7 AudioFile Earphones Awards and received Izzard Ink Publishing Audiobook of the Year for 2015 for his performance in Bassam and the Seven Secret Scrolls.
Some of Mark’s other noted Audiobooks include The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner and Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult, both of which are published by Random House Audio. Mark’s complete audiography of 80 audiobooks can be found at Audible.com.
In addition, he has appeared in numerous films and television programs—everything from the Star Trek franchise to indie films to soap operas. He has voiced virtually countless television commercials and quite a number of video games. For many years, he was the voice of the Sundance Channel and E! Entertainment’s Style Network. Currently, he is the voice of Porsche.
Mark’s educational background includes a BA in Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University and classical acting training at the University of California, San Diego’s MFA theatre program.
Soon after finishing his education, Mark began his professional acting career in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Tony Award-winning Broadway play, The Grapes of Wrath, which also played to great acclaim at the Royal National Theatre in London, England. He has acted in numerous productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival, New York’s Public Theatre, Princeton’s McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage and Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theatre among others.
Notable Los Angeles productions include Peter Hall’s Shakespeare trilogy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, and Romeo and Juliet at the Ahmanson Theatre, Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Agamemnon at the Getty Villa Theatre and other roles at The Geffen Playhouse, A Noise Within, and The Colony Theatre. He lives with his wife, his three sons and his dog Max in Encino, CA.”
Mark does an excellent narration here!!!!
GENRE:
Fiction; Literature; Suspense; Thriller
TIME FRAME:
Contemporary (2015)
SUBJECTS:
Lawyers; Criminals; Courts
DEDICATION:
Not found
SAMPLE QUOTATION:
From Part 1: Chapter 1:
“These nights I find myself sleeping in cheap motel rooms that change each week. I’m not trying to save money; rather, I’m just trying to stay alive. There are plenty of people who’d like to kill me right now, and a few of them have been quite vocal. They don’t tell you in law school that one day you may find yourself defending a person charged with a crime so heinous that otherwise peaceful citizens feel driven to take up arms and threaten to kill the accused, his lawyer, and even the judge.
But I’ve been threatened before. It’s part of being a rogue lawyer, a subspecialty of the profession that I more or less fell into ten years ago. When I finished law school, jobs were scarce. I reluctantly took a part-time position in the City’s public defender’s office. From there I landed in a small, unprofitable firm that handled only criminal defense. After a few years, that firm blew up and I was on my own, out on the street with plenty of others, scrambling to make a buck.
One case put me on the map. I can’t say it made me famous because, seriously, how can you say a lawyer is famous in a city of a million people? Plenty of local hacks think they’re famous. They smile from billboards as they beg for your bankruptcy and swagger in television ads as they seem deeply concerned about your personal injuries, but they’re forced to pay for their own publicity. Not me.
The cheap motels change each week. I’m in the middle of a trial in a dismal, backwater, redneck town called Milo, two hours from where I live in the City. I am defending a brain-damaged eighteen-year-old dropout who’s charged with killing two little girls in one of the most evil crimes I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen plenty. My clients are almost always guilty, so I don’t waste a lot of time wringing my hands about whether they get what they deserve. In this case, though, Gardy is not guilty, not that it matters. It does not. What’s important in Milo these days is that Gardy gets convicted and sentenced to death and executed as soon as possible so that the town can feel better about itself and move on. Move on to where, exactly? Hell if I know, nor do I care. This place has been moving backward for fifty years, and one lousy verdict will not change its course. I’ve read and heard it said that Milo needs “closure,” whatever that means. You’d have to be an idiot to believe this town will somehow grow and prosper and become more tolerant as soon as Gardy gets the needle.
My job is layered and complicated, and at the same time it’s quite simple. I’m being paid by the State to provide a first-class defense to a defendant charged with capital murder, and this requires me to fight and claw and raise hell in a courtroom where no one is listening. Gardy was essentially convicted the day he was arrested, and his trial is only a formality. The dumb and desperate cops trumped up the charges and fabricated the evidence. The prosecutor knows this but has no spine and is up for reelection next year. The judge is asleep. The jurors are basically nice, simple people, wide-eyed at the process and ever so anxious to believe the lies their proud authorities are producing on the witness stand.
Milo has its share of cheap motels but I can’t stay there. I would be lynched or flayed or burned at the stake, or if I’m lucky a sniper would hit me between the eyes and it would be over in a flash. The state police are providing protection during the trial, but I get the clear impression these guys are just not into it. They view me the same way most people do. I’m a long-haired roguish zealot sick enough to fight for the rights of child killers and the like.
My current motel is a Hampton Inn located twenty-five minutes from Milo. It costs $60 a night and the State will reimburse me. Next door is Partner, a hulking, heavily armed guy who wears black suits and takes me everywhere. Partner is my driver, bodyguard, confidant, paralegal, caddie, and only friend. I earned his loyalty when a jury found him not guilty of killing an undercover narcotics officer. We walked out of the courtroom arm in arm and have been inseparable ever since. On at least two occasions, off-duty cops have tried to kill him. On one occasion, they came after me. We’re still standing.
Or perhaps I should say we’re still ducking.”
RATING:.
5
STARTED READING – FINISHED READING
12-25-2022 to 12-30-2022 (