- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Harper; Reprint edition (May 5 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060555521
- ISBN-13: 978-0060555528
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 11.3 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,449,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
"As usual, the story begins with a woman crying." So says Atlanta lawyer Jack Hammond in this mesmerizing thriller about a good man caught in a web of bad love and murder. Beautiful client Violeta Ramirez is doing the crying on behalf of her dope-dealer boyfriend when Jack tumbles so hard for her his high-flying legal career is grounded and Violeta ends up dead. Two years later, Jack is working out of his one-man law office fishing for clients at the bottom of the criminal pool when he begins investigating the suspicious overdose death of his old college pal, Doug Townsend. With the help of a local hacker, Nightmare, Jack unlocks Doug's computer and stumbles into a quagmire involving the deaths of eight hepatitis C patients who were all enrolled in an experimental drug trial gone horribly wrong. Doug was also strangely obsessed with beautiful African-American opera singer Michele Sonnier, as is Jack after one look at her photos and a night at the opera. That her husband is the billionaire CEO of a local drug firm with its own hep C drug makes the liaison even more dangerous. After finding the disgraced researcher who headed the botched drug trial, Jack and his lowlife helpers begin to make real headway in solving the case. Even though melancholy, wisecracking Jack is a lawyer, this isn't a legal thriller so much as a knight-in-shining armor tale with the hero cast in the mold of the great Travis McGee. It's not Grisham that Arvin (The Will) should be compared to, but the incomparable John D. MacDonald. Those readers who value intelligence, fine writing and action will find it all in this outstanding novel.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Doug Townsend is just another overdose as far as the Atlanta cops are concerned. His friend and lawyer, Jack Hammond, doesn't share the cavalier attitude. His suspicions multiply when he learns that Doug's fatal dosage was delivered intravenously despite a lifelong needle phobia. Jack also learns Doug had an obsessive interest in Michele Sonnier, the hottest star in American opera and the trophy wife of Charles Ralston, founder of Horizn Pharmaceuticals. Jack contacts Sonnier and soon learns her well-hidden secret: Michele grew up in Atlanta's poorest, most notorious housing project and had an illegitimate child, whom she gave up for adoption while still a child herself. Doug was tracking down her daughter for her. Did Ralston's company, about to go public with a well-publicized cure for Parkinson's, get rid of Doug rather than allow him to drag the CEO through a scandal? Jack, himself a man with a regrettable past, enlists the aid of a Fagin's army of borderline miscreants to help Michele and, in the process, discover what Horizn is trying to hide. Arvin's first legal thriller, The Will (2000), generated excellent reviews. His second just might kick him to a whole new level, critically and commercially. He presents love, sex, money, power, and violence in an irresistibly melancholy noir package in which redemption is the motive but hell beckons at every turn. Wes Lukowsky
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-read - incredibly intelligent novel - wowser .....,
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This review is from: The Last Goodbye (Hardcover)
I'm not sure what's more amazing - the story of TLG itself or how Arvin has re-created himself since The Will. Not that The Will lacked anything, TLG creates a new slant on writing intelligent, edge-of-your-couch reading.Point being: Arvin has not simply created another story for Henry Matthews from The Will. The creation of Jack Hammond shows Arvin's way of approaching life, mystery and thinking from a totally separate point of view - which I think is nothing short of brilliant. Excellent reading. If you're not a fan of Arvin's, you will be soon ......
3.0 out of 5 stars
I Couldn't Put it Down, But.....,
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This review is from: The Last Goodbye (Hardcover)
The Last Goodbye is a gripping, compelling read--but I have to say that after finishing it, I felt kind of like "Is that all there is?" The story is essentially a good one--down on his luck lawyer's old friend dies of an overdose, or does he? Friend investigates the murder, with the help of a cyberpunk client and discovers web of lies and deceit, while he may be falling in love with dead friend's obsessive love. The dialogue works, the writing is good, but certain elements of the plot just didn't ring true and overall the plot seems like a rehash of other novels. Still--this book would certainly be a fine companion on a long plane flight or in a boring waiting room--it will provide an excellent diversion--just not one you would feel like talking with your book club about.
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A Good Cure,
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I read most of this book while I was up most of the night with the a bit of a flu. If you want to help get through a long night it was a good companion. I will not review the plot as many others have done so. I measure a mystery by the characters that one meets, the excitement the plot generates and the ending. This effort gets 2 out of 3. There are wonderful characters such as Blu the beautiful secretary and Sammy Liston( a wonderful name) who move the story along. Also the portrait of Pope and his role in the housing development was terrific. Arvin also makes an effort to have some serious thoughts. There are several pages of wonderful writing in this effort. The two criticisms were a little too much foreshadowing and the ending just was not up to the rest of the story. I would go on about that but would not want to ruin the book for others. My only comment it reminded me of one of my favorite movies but not done as well.
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