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| Undertow | 
 enlarge | Author: Sydney Bauer
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 661045
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 042522290X
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780425222904
ASIN: 042522290X
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Good condition, wear from reading and use. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact and has some creases. The spine has signs of wear and creases. This copy may include "From the library of" labels, stickers or stamps and be an ex-library copy.
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Product Description
Its the debut thriller guaranteed to pull readers in.
After the daughter of a powerful senator dies in a tragic accident, the witness to the accident, an esteemed female attorney, unexpectedly finds herself charged with murder by the girls vengeful fathera man with his own twisted agenda.
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 a real page turner September 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very well written book. The pages seemed to turn themselves, and the end was...oh, I better not spoil it!!
Legal Thriller Fans: This Will Soothe a Craving August 11, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sydney Braun's debut thriller has some faults, but overall legal thriller fans will be glad to pick it up and plunge in.
The story centers around the death of a senator's child while she's asea with some friends against her parents' wishes. The senator pressures the DA to try the case as a homicide instead of an involuntary manslaughter case, and the story then moves into the efforts of the defendant's legal team to disprove an unproveable case.
The courtroom scenes are well-written but the characters are highly stereotyped. A semi-believable romantic relationship keeps intruding upon the plot, but overall this is a good read.
 Great Read! August 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is so good I swallowed it up! Great legal thriller. I haven't read one this good since The Firm-John Grissom. The book has everything from racial tension to political intrigue. I highly recommend this book and can hardly wait for another one from this author! Shirlz
exhilarating legal thriller July 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
To celebrate her daughter Teesha's seventeenth birthday in style, Boston based attorney Rayna Martin rents a boat to take her teenage child and Teesha's three musketeer friends (Christina, Mariah and Francie) on a sea trip. However, the happy occasion turns tragic when Christina drowns.
Christina's father Senator Rudolph Haynes is outraged blaming race for the death of his daughter. He and his child are white Brahmins while the Martins and the other two friends are African-American working class. He pounds the DA into charging Rayna with a race related murder. Rayna hires attorney David Cavanaugh to defend her while her best friend Sara Davis vows to help prove a tragic accident occurred.
Rudolph is overly stereotyped as an ambitious always right manipulative conservative politician rather than a full blooded grieving dad lashing out at the only adult he can; whereas the rest of the cast including the late Christie seem genuine. Stealing the show from a secondary perspective is the victim's mom who reassesses all she believed in the American dream. Well written, UNDERTOW is an exhilarating legal thriller that turns over the Simpson premise that money can buy the dream team defense as influence can purchase the best prosecution in the world.
Harriet Klausner
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