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Beach Road

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Paperback, 383 pages
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USA, 1 June 2007

Dark mysteries come to East Hampton while a struggling lawyer fights to save his friend from being framed for a triple murder.
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small-occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. So when he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder in East Hampton, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.
The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy's client is a local hero, but he knows the case rests on money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client will be framed-unless he can find the key to the case.
When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch, especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation's eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome-and the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.


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Dark mysteries come to East Hampton while a struggling lawyer fights to save his friend from being framed for a triple murder.
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small-occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. So when he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder in East Hampton, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.
The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy's client is a local hero, but he knows the case rests on money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client will be framed-unless he can find the key to the case.
When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch, especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation's eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome-and the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.

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9780446619141
ISBN
0446619140
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Dimensions
10.7 x 2.8 x 19.3 centimetres (0.29 kg)

About the Author

James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.

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Dante Halleyville, a rising young African American basketball player, is accused of three horrible murders in the normally quiet Hamptons area of Long Island, NY. With all of the evidence pointing directly at him, Dante turns to courtside friend Tom Dunleavy, a lawyer whose dreams of being a professional basketball player ended with a blown knee. Unsure of his skills in criminal law, Tom asks an old girlfriend, Kate Costello, to help him. At first, she is reluctant to get involved with Tom again, but events at her prestigious New York City firm cause her to reconsider. The racial overtones of the murders (the victims were all white) threaten to derail the defense, but Tom is convinced of Dante's innocence and stops at nothing to prove it. Some clunky scenes with Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, and former president Bill Clinton cannot mar the breakneck pace of this novel, and the ending is so unexpected, it leaves listeners gasping in shock. The multiple-reader approach (Billy Baldwin among them) is a good one, and the story is skillfully told from a number of different angles. A definite winner for all libraries.-Joseph L. Carlson, Allan Hancock Coll., Lompoc, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Bestseller Patterson shows signs of having gone to the well too often in this slapdash collaboration with de Jonge, his coauthor on The Beach House (2002). Tom Dunleavy, a former professional basketball player and local East Hampton legend, is getting by as an underworked and unmotivated attorney. His sports glory days and his one true love are long in the past, but he gets second chances at personal and professional redemption when three locals are gunned down, apparently in the aftermath of racial tensions arising from a heated pickup game of hoops. The police seize on Dante Halleyville, the country's best high school star, as their suspect, and Dunleavy must dust off his old courtroom skills and enlist his lost love, Kate Costello, as his partner. Patterson readers know to expect a surprise ending, but he leaves too few possibilities for many to be genuinely fooled. Fans can only hope that Patterson soon returns to the level he achieved with his Alex Cross series. (May) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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By Tessa on April 7, 2007
The Beach Road is a superficial thriller with a slight pretentiousness that is to say it seems to want to say something but just isn't quite sure how to deal with this ambition. So it rushes along at a fast pace glossing over but never overcoming its essential weaknesses that are glaringly obvious.
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By Alice on January 16, 2007
As always, James Patterson has given us another fast paced "interesting" story. I found the first part of the novel difficult to get into as the characterization was weak and so many characters were being introduced that I was having a hard time remembering who was who. Fortunately, once I got a grasp of it, I pretty much enjoyed the story. The ending was somewhat strange and I don't feel it was really believable, but it definitely presented the reader with a twist. I have read all of JP's work and will continue to do so. As I have said in past reviews of his work, I look forward to the day when his writing returns to the caliber of his earlier novel
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By Alice on January 16, 2007
As always, James Patterson has given us another fast paced "interesting" story. I found the first part of the novel difficult to get into as the characterization was weak and so many characters were being introduced that I was having a hard time remembering who was who. Fortunately, once I got a grasp of it, I pretty much enjoyed the story. The ending was somewhat strange and I don't feel it was really believable, but it definitely presented the reader with a twist. I have read all of JP's work and will continue to do so. As I have said in past reviews of his work, I look forward to the day when his writing returns to the caliber of his earlier novel
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By Yue on January 6, 2007
Beach Road is Excellent. Do yourself a favor and add James Patterson's Beach Road to your collection. Forget about any negative reviews you may have read. I used to work for the Hawaii State Library system and had access to 50 libraries worth of audiobooks. Over the years I have gathered enough stories to become a jaded critic. Beach Road is the first audiobook production with multiple voice actors that has impressed me. (most multiple reader books I have listened to pale) Beach Road cuts a plot with clever characters like lemon twists in a perfect drink. Patterson and De Jonge write a superb suspense filled story...right to the end. ...Listen to it. dont miss
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