- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Headline Feature; New edition edition (1 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747254583
- ISBN-13: 978-0747254584
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.4 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,058,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dismas Hardy, the dart-playing, saloon-keeping lawyer who is one of John Lescroart's most consistently interesting and appealing heroes, faces a dilemma: if he can prove to a jury that Graham Russo helped his father Sal kill himself because the sick old man asked him to, a liberal San Francisco jury will probably vote to acquit Graham of first-degree murder. Hardy would love to plead manslaughter to escape the wrath of the state's attorney general who wants to nail Graham. However, despite the evidence against him, Graham insists he didn't do it. What is a lawyer to do and who can he believe?
Although Lescroart leads the reader up and down a few blind alleys before the truth comes out, the mystery's not the thing here. It's the characters and their back stories that make this such a good read. Foremost among them is Graham, who washed out of pro baseball and walked out of a promising law career before finding the father who once deserted him long ago. The core of the story is Graham's relationship with Sal, who's losing his mind to Alzheimer's but may still be a threat to a federal judge who was once his closest friend. Then there's Sarah Evans, the homicide cop who falls in love with her suspect. For good measure, there are some changes in the lives of those characters who are familiar to readers from other Dismas Hardy adventures-- Abe Glitsky, the half Jewish, half black cop; Drysdale, the D.A. who's been beaten in court by Dismas in previous outings; Frannie, Dismas's wife; Moses, his brother- in-law, and Dismas himself, who becomes more interesting every time Lescroart brings him back. While the pacing is languorous and the denouement not as tight as it might be, The Mercy Rule provides a complex and satisfying reading experience. --Jane Adams
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Sal Russo's body is found, with a "Do Not Resuscitate" note. Dismas Hardy finds himself as Graham Russo's defence. How long can Russo protest innocence, when it's discovered Sal wasn't penniless, and all San Fransisco is intent on making the apparent mercy killing media issue of the year?
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Lescroart in great forms. Although the author is not a lawyer he manages to set a great court performance playing with the thin shades of the legal complexity about the euthanasia - the mercy killing. Is mercy killing a crime itself or is it an act of pity? How Dismas Hardy can prove it in order to avoid the death penalty for his client? Should he procceed on this schedule or take his chances and risk everything trying to prove his client's complete innocence? All the legal details Lescroart uses are perfect and help keep the readers' interest high. Graham Russo is a tragic human figure. A great talent with a promising baseballcareer who lost almost everything, found the courage to turn page and now that he managed to survive again he faces for another time the absolute failure. A life in jail or even the death penalty. But even then his loyalty to his father is touching. Dismas Hardy on the other hand fights with his conscience between the duty to his family and the duty as an attorney to a desperate Graham Russo. The story begins as a whodunit thriller but at the background it is more a drama with Russo's fight with his lost dreams, his fading career, his lost father, his hostile brother & sister, his personal life being violated and judged. Dismas faces his own little drama. His client has confessed he was shooting morphine injections to his father but not the fatal one. This case is difficult and his wife does not appreciate his big hours at the office. Sarah Evans the homicide inspector risks a promissing career trying to help the suspect, his lover. Digging deeper Hardy suspects that probably Sal's death was a murder and his life is in danger. Breathtaking plot in a book you wouldn't miss. Strongly recommended
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I am never disappointed by books by John T Lescroart. He develops storylines and characters like no other author I have read.
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This is the 6th book I have read with Dismis Hardy as the main charactor and yet again it is a book you will find hard to put down. I was reading it at every spare moment - the way the court case is handled will have you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Lescroat writes in such a way, you are involved with the story from page one! I can't wait for the next book to be published.
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