- Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (Mar 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446607339
- ISBN-13: 978-0446607339
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 3.2 x 17.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #684,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sara Tate starts her job as a New York City assistant district attorney the day before massive budget cuts. To keep her job, she grabs a case slated for one of the DA office's hot shots, thinking it will be the kind of showpiece that'll make her a hero. The next day, she learns that the defense attorney on the case is her husband, Jared Lynch. To make matters worse, what appeared to be a simple breaking and entering is beginning to look more like a murder.
Someone is pitting Sara and Jared against each other and both are being threatened: win the case or your spouse dies. Sara and Jared have struggled and suffered more than your ordinary young lawyers and their desperation to protect one another and their life together is almost palpable. But the more they fight to win the case, the more they put each other's lives in jeopardy.
Dead Even is truly gripping. Brad Meltzer has created characters that are realistic enough to be believable, but quirky enough to be captivating. The lawyers are especially determined and the criminals are especially sinister. Even more impressive than his characters is his don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-something plot, which grabs you on page one and doesn't let go until you close the cover. When reading Dead Even, you may find yourself holding your breath as you furiously turn the pages. It's a legal thriller that gives Grisham's books a run for their money. -- Mara Friedman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
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 in danger. Sara Tate and Jared Lynch are married to each other and to their legal careers: he's a rising star for the defense in a big firm; she's just starting as an assistant district attorney after six months of job seeking. On her first day, Sara hears that a budget cut could put her back on the unemployment lines, so she swipes a burglary case earmarked for a top man in the pecking order. But this is more than a routine burglary, and a powerful villain named Oscar Rafferty wants it to go away. He hires Jared to defend the accused, a sadistic monster called Tony Kozlow, telling him that unless Kozlow walks, Sara dies. While Jared grapples with the moral issues involved?and avoids telling Sara about the threat for hundreds of pages?another nasty type (whose fingerprints match several dead criminals) pushes Sara's grandfather down a flight of subway stairs and says he'll do worse to Jared unless Kozlow is convicted. Fearing for each other's safety, their marriage cracking under the strain, Sara and Jared joust in front of a grand jury and then get ready for trial, with Sara helped over some serious speed bumps by a nicely sketched young assistant and a tough prosecutor with a romantic interest. Several murders and a subway shoot-out eventually resolve this somewhat overlong but definitely compelling tale of legal and extralegal adventure. Author tour.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Ugly main characters,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dead Even (Hardcover)
The book opens up with the two main characters (Sara, Jared) and their local grocery store owner friend (Mickey) trash this old lady who comes into the store with a store coupon for Cheerios only to find there are no Cheerios on the shelf. She camplains to Mickey about it and instead of simply saying he was sorry and giving her a 'rain check' he and Sara and Jared light into her like rabid dogs. I mean it was disgusting. I know quite a few grocery store owners (big cities and small) and none would dare to speak to customer that way or let his friends do so. Sara and Jared are rude offensive arseholes. I took the book back to the library next day. No thank you.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Bad. No, REALLY bad.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dead Even (Mass Market Paperback)
I generally wouldn't take the time to write a book review unless the book was either really good or really bad. Can you guess which category this one fits in?I think the actual premise is pretty interesting, which is why I bought the book in the first place. However, reading this book proved to be a torturous experience. The dialog is so incredibly unrealistic and juvenile, while at the same time being incredibly predictable - turns your stomach faster than you can turn the pages. You just don't care about any of the characters. The husband is whimpy and whinny and he's always getting beaten up (I think even his wife beats him up at one point). The wife is also part whimpy, but she's got a hidden streak of Wonder Woman in her, so you know things will work out ok for her. Their reactions to the situations they're placed in are completely different than most rational people would have. I fought my way through every last page, refusing to give in to the drivel, but I've never been so glad to complete a book as I was with this one. I feel like 3 days of my life have been robbed from me. That, and $5.97.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good fight... if they weren't husband & wife,
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This review is from: Dead Even (Mass Market Paperback)
I am agree that this is not a thriller, but is not a book that if you put down you will never want to take it back again, the plot of the book is very interesting and I really don't know if husband and wife can fight in a trial, one as a lawyer and the other as a prosecutor, if this is true I think that that law has to be modified, maybe it would be a better novel if they will be only friends or maybe they want to get married.The dead of Conrad is foolish and the end of the book is like a fairy tale and those ends I just don't like them, I like when the end of the book leave something to your imagination, something that you can end the book as you want.
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