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| Dead Even | 
 enlarge | Author: Brad Meltzer
Creator: Scott Brick
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $24.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  142 reviews
Sales Rank: 961989
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 13
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 1600244777
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781600244773
ASIN: 1600244777
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
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
Product Description
Prosecution vs. Defense
Husband vs. Wife
Life or Death
In his New York Times runaway bestseller The Tenth Justice, Brad Meltzer asked the insidious question: How much can you really trust your friends? Now he ups the tension, and the ante, in a new legal thriller that poses the most chilling dilemma of all...
Sara Tate, Manhattan district attorney, has grabbed a case that could make her career. She's smart, tough, and sure to get a conviction...until Jared, her husband and a powerful defense attorney, is hired by the other side. But Sara doesn't know Jared has been warned to get his client off or she will be killed. Hiding desperate motives, the couple begins a vicious battle in court and at home. For Sara has a terrible secret too...and both soon face an unthinkable truth: No matter who wins, the other may die.
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 Dead Even - Brad Meltzer September 25, 2008
Got this really, really fast & a great price. Can't wait to get through my pile of books to be able to read it.
 convoluted September 22, 2008
Let me start by saying that I am a HUGE Bad Meltzer fan and have loved all of his other books. This one one how ever was DOA. From the start his characters (usually his strong suite) were uninteresting and cardboardish. The plot was totally convoluted and downright silly!! My advice would be to skip this book entirely and read ALL of his other books. This one is about equal to a Paterson book, which isn't saying much.
Terrible August 15, 2008
Ugh, bleech, gah!
Yeah, it was bad. Too Long. Too Convoluted and just plain bad. The last 100 pages seemed to have been just thrown together to get to the ending. Instead of trying to tie things up nicely, leave some things hanging. This is the second book of Brad Meltzer's I've read, 10th Justice being the first, and I feel this one took a step back. What is his deal with trying to throw a twist in by the main characters? Hey, lets prove we are smarter than all the supporting characters and make a really convoluted, trite last 100 pages!!!
Sorry it just does not work.
Read if you must, but it's not recommended.
 Dead Even May 12, 2007
This is the fourth of Brad Meltzer's books that I have read. I did enjoy it. I did think it was exciting and well written. However, of the four that I have read, I would rank it as number 4. It has an interesting story line development; and although you think you know who is behind it, you are never quite sure. Even after the reader finds out the "who", you still don't know the "why". That is talent on the part of the writer.
One of Meltzer's strong points in all of his books has been character development, and he has certainly exhibited that talent in Dead Even. In this book, however, I think he went a little too far with Kozlow. I realize that he should be an over the top, violent killer. What I find hard to believe is that Jared could receive such vicious, multiple beatings and then pop right up and keep on going. Any wife who loved her husband as much as Sara did, would never have excepted his lame excuses for his injuries, even though she was mad at him.
Overall, Dead Even is a very good book and well worth the read; but it's not the type of book that you just can't put down.
Exciting and Thrilling May 7, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I say I could not put this book down, I mean it! A courtroom drama with the drama and intensity of a psychological thriller, this book delivers. The main characters are a husband and wife, both lawyers. One is the DA, the other is the defense attorney--and they are forced to fight each other. You could not ask for more in a mystery and legal thriller!
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