- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm) (Nov 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671760335
- ISBN-13: 978-0671760335
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.2 x 2.3 cm
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
WOLF AMONG THE LAMBS INDEED
25 July 2004
Format:Paperback
LOOSE AMONG THE LAMBS is one of the most compelling and gripping novels I've read in a while. Jay Brandon delivers a powerful storyline, replete with incredibly realistic characters and emotional confrontations that are explicitly and thoughtfully written.
DA Mark Blackwell is asked to do a favor for a friend---a child molester wants to confess to his crimes, and he wants to surrender to Blackwell. When the case comes to trial, however, the molester recants and says it wasn't him. Soon, a young ten year old boy watching news reports identifies the real culprit, but it's not the arrested molester---it's the man's lawyer.
From hereon, Brandon takes us through a maze of deceit and cover-ups; the brave young boy who has to fight his feelings of his abuser, and testify in court. Blackwell is aided by a dedicated underling named Betsy, and finds himself facing his old mentor in the final showdown.
The courtroom scenes are phenomenally well done, and the pacing keeps us intrigued. We feel the terror of the act; sympathy for the victim and their families; we also learn more about Blackwell and his own failed fatherhood with his son, David. This is not sugarcoated; the deck is not stacked. Faults match virtues, and even Blackwell comes under our scope at times.
All in all, however, this is a brilliant book. Well worth reading!
DA Mark Blackwell is asked to do a favor for a friend---a child molester wants to confess to his crimes, and he wants to surrender to Blackwell. When the case comes to trial, however, the molester recants and says it wasn't him. Soon, a young ten year old boy watching news reports identifies the real culprit, but it's not the arrested molester---it's the man's lawyer.
From hereon, Brandon takes us through a maze of deceit and cover-ups; the brave young boy who has to fight his feelings of his abuser, and testify in court. Blackwell is aided by a dedicated underling named Betsy, and finds himself facing his old mentor in the final showdown.
The courtroom scenes are phenomenally well done, and the pacing keeps us intrigued. We feel the terror of the act; sympathy for the victim and their families; we also learn more about Blackwell and his own failed fatherhood with his son, David. This is not sugarcoated; the deck is not stacked. Faults match virtues, and even Blackwell comes under our scope at times.
All in all, however, this is a brilliant book. Well worth reading!
Jay Brandon's Loose Amaong the Lambs is top-knotch
22 May 2010
Format:Paperback
Jay Brandon has created a great novel here about the world of child predators. The setting is San Antonio, which jay Brandon knows very well.
He is comfortable using actual locations in the San Antonio area to tell this tale of a District Attorney, Mark Blackwell, who is asked to do a favor for an old friend. Mark is running for re-election and is asked to accept the surrender of a an alleged serial child molester. This gives mark the opportunity to put a public face on his reelection race and he gladly accepts.
As the story develops, the surrender is not that simple when the suspect recants during his guilty plea sentencing. Then Mark must begin investigating and as he draws nearer to the actual suspect, the suspect alleges that the charges are false and that he is the victim of political corruption because he knows secrets about the city's power elite which must remain hidden.
The author reveals the protagonist's flaws as well as the murky world of child molestation and the difficulty in proving charges. The reader learns a great deal about the workings of the juvenile mind after a child molestation.
It is a great read and I am only sorry I discovered jay Brandon and this book now. It is well worth reading.
Ed Benjamin, author of "Cash In on the Obama $3 Trillion Spending Plan!: How to make large amounts of money by conducting business with or receiving grants from federal, state, and local governments" also available on Amazon
He is comfortable using actual locations in the San Antonio area to tell this tale of a District Attorney, Mark Blackwell, who is asked to do a favor for an old friend. Mark is running for re-election and is asked to accept the surrender of a an alleged serial child molester. This gives mark the opportunity to put a public face on his reelection race and he gladly accepts.
As the story develops, the surrender is not that simple when the suspect recants during his guilty plea sentencing. Then Mark must begin investigating and as he draws nearer to the actual suspect, the suspect alleges that the charges are false and that he is the victim of political corruption because he knows secrets about the city's power elite which must remain hidden.
The author reveals the protagonist's flaws as well as the murky world of child molestation and the difficulty in proving charges. The reader learns a great deal about the workings of the juvenile mind after a child molestation.
It is a great read and I am only sorry I discovered jay Brandon and this book now. It is well worth reading.
Ed Benjamin, author of "Cash In on the Obama $3 Trillion Spending Plan!: How to make large amounts of money by conducting business with or receiving grants from federal, state, and local governments" also available on Amazon
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The best Jay Brandon ever wrote.
17 July 1999
Format:Hardcover
STUNNING STORY. Deep dark plot. You won't be able to put it down
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