Product Description

Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail bike and spends way too much time drinking beer in the sunshine. Ambition has never been Andy's strong point - he prefers to take it easy. That is, until one of Texas's wealthiest men walks into his office. On the spot, billionaire Russell Reeves retains Andy as his lawyer and, in exchange for some easy legal work, pays him more money than he has ever earned before. Andy's life is transformed. But nothing comes for free. Russell is a desperate man whose sole aim is to save his eight-year-old son, Zach, who is dying from leukemia. He is prepared to do anything - even if it means putting Andy's life in danger...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #201576 in Books
• Published on: 2010-04-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

About the Author
Born and educated in Texas, Mark Gimenez attended law school at Notre Dame, Indiana and practised with a large Dallas law firm. He is married with two sons.

Customer Reviews

Compulsive reading
Having found Mark Gimenez's last book a little disappointing I approached this one with some trepidation - but I need not have worried.

The gently-paced first part of the book centres around the lifestyle of the main character Andy, a young, unambitious lawyer who leads a bohemian lifestyle in south-of-the-river Austin, Texas, whilst scraping a living dealing with traffic violations.

Andy's life changes when he is visited unexpectedly by a well-known local billionaire seeking his services. Several twists and turns in the plot follow, and the pace shifts upwards a gear or two.

I hate the cliche "unputdownable", but there is a fifty-page stretch about two-thirds of the way through the book which is so gripping that I lost all awareness of my surroundings whilst reading it, and I couldn't predict the ending at all. On another level, the author made the SoCo area of Austin sound more enticing than any travel guide.

If you like a good thriller in the Grisham/Lee Child mould, you'll love this.

Common? No!
This is the 4th Gimenez book I have read, and enjoyed. Perhaps not yet a 'Grisham', as advertised on the blurbs, but coming along fast. He has an easy style, and doesn't fall into the trap of using Legalese, so the reader is kept interested and informed.

His characters are well thought out and the subject matter is varied. I am sure that as he continues to develop his characters and plots, he will achieve greater depth. I would certainly recommend him to anyone who gets bored with lengthy Court Room dramas - Gimenez is out on the streets, not kow-towing to judge and jury. A good read.

Good Read but..
Havng read his previous novels, and being impressed by them, I feel as if this one suffered a little. Not with the manner in which he writes - it is always very good - but more with content and the ending.
When I find myself skipping pages because something is dragging on too long something is wrong. Without going into the story it is suffice to say that some of the bike chasing parts of the book went on way way too long. As for the ending, way too predictable. A good read but not the best.