- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Harper (Oct 8 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060191333
- ISBN-13: 978-0060191337
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #903,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The follow-up to The Price of Blood, one of Amazon.com's 10 best thrillers of 1997, The Big Law gets off to an exciting start when ex-cop Phil Broker gets a call for help from his ex-wife Caren. Caren left him years ago for Keith Angland, his former buddy on the St. Paul police force. Now, apparently, Angland's turned into a cowboy cop, maybe even a Mob-controlled rogue; at the very least, he's assaulted Caren and threatened her life. Broker has been out of uniform for a couple of years, busy caring for his 1-year-old daughter in a rural upstate backwater while his new wife is away on peace-keeping duty in the Balkans. He's heard rumors that Angland is being watched by the Feds, suspected of fingering an informant, but it doesn't touch him personally until Caren turns to him for help. She flees St. Paul and heads for Broker's hideaway with a suitcase full of money, an incriminating tape, and Tom James, a reporter with a gambling jones and a career that's on the skids. James hopes that latching onto Caren---not to mention the $2 million she's absconded with--will turn his luck around. When Caren is killed, the reporter frames Angland, steals the money, and talks his way into the Witness Protection Program, which looks like the perfect ticket out of his dead-end life, especially with Caren's tape as a bargaining chip. The Feds think James walks on water, but Broker isn't convinced. Setting out to find James where the "Big Law" has hidden him, he discovers just how far over the edge both James and Angland have fallen, and who pushed them. An explosive thriller with plenty of action, edge-of-your-seat pacing, and an appealing hero who readers will look forward to encountering again. --Jane Adams
From Publishers Weekly
Continuing the saga of loner ex-cop Phil Broker from The Price of Blood, Logan, a rising new maestro of suspense, explores the inner workings of the Federal Witness Protection Program in this crackerjack new spellbinder featuring dirty money, compulsion and revenge. When St. Paul, Minn., fading star reporter Tom James, a down-on-his-luck gambler, receives an anonymous tip that once-charismatic cop Keith Angland is on the take with the mob, the trail leads James to Angland's abused wife, Caren, who has decided to seek witness protection and turn over her husband's ill-gotten stash of $2 million in big bills and an incriminating videotape. (Caren is also Broker's ex.) While driving Caren to Broker's backwoods retreat, James persuades her to hide the tape and cash as he obsesses on stealing the loot for himself. An ensuing dispute with Angland at Broker's cabin provides James the opportunity to commit a convenient murder. Accusing Angland of the deed, James demands that the feds give him a new identity in exchange for the tape. The enthralling yarn becomes a cat-and-mouse game as Broker tries to locate James. Virtually seamless, the prose mesmerizes with intelligent contrasts between the monastic single-father hero and the obsessive-compulsive villain. The ingenious plot and cast of well-fleshed-out charactersAincluding a Russian Mafia czar and a sexy editorAcontinue to mark Logan as a standout in the genre.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Unbelievable....,
By "shane215" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Big Law (Mass Market Paperback)
That is the word i kept thinking of as i read this book. I just could not believe that a publishing house would pay for this kind of writing.If there is a more dis-honest writer of fiction out there i haven't come across him. Or a plot more predictible.You've read this book a hundred times before. Only the names and the metaphores have changed. I can just see Chuck Logan working over the formula outline for thrillers. Inserting a name here, an auto model there, a precisely detailed firearm here.... Although there is some comic relief. In a passage involving (fake) cocaine. It is obvious a little research in his own kitchen could have helped Logan to see what twenty-two ounces of powder looks like.I resent every penny i paid for this piece of junk. This book was so bad i could go on for pages but there are limits here.......
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chuck Logan does it again!!,
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This review is from: Big Law (Mass Market Paperback)
I can't believe this book sat on my shelf for over a year and I didn't read it. I finished it in one day! Once again, Chuck Logan immerses the reader in the world of his protagonist,in this case, Phil Broker. Hopefully we'll see more of Broker in future books. This is a great read and the "daddy" scenes are winners. The reviewer who says Broker doesn't care about his wife and child didn't read this book very carefully. What about the last sentence????? Maybe one has to understand about "compartments" to understand Phil Broker.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Metaphor Mother-lode,
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This review is from: Big Law (Mass Market Paperback)
Chuck Logan doesn't think like the rest of us. Research shows that the typical adult male experiences a sexual thought every fifteen seconds, on average. That's how often Logan thinks up a new metaphor.The Big Law is a wonderfully constructed spellbinder. Ex-cop Phil Broker is called back into action in the unlikely role of trying to clear his ex-boss in the murder of his ex-wife. That's a lot of "ex's." And there are more: exciting suspense, excellent machine-gun-like delivery, extraordinary plotting, and an excess of marvelously fresh phraseology. Consider this small sampling: "... passive as a monastery staffed by eunuchs...glowworms of moonlight noodled between the drapes ... rumpled corduroy soul ... toothpick wreckage of a cornfield ... jerky Samurai rage ... ice gray day mushroomed into Snow City ... house like a blueprint of her hopes ... custom-fitted aura of loneliness... tiny galaxies of shattered glass ...veins seething with battery acid ... gamey as mold on a spoiled peach ... like a meticulous clerk who adds and subtracts lives ... racked by sick-dog shivers... neck flapped like broken film on a reel ..." It's non-stop. Expect to be entertained. -Christopher Bonn Jonnes, author of BIG ICE and WAKE UP DEAD
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