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Simplified Triz: New Problem Solving Application for Technical and Business Professionals

Kalevi Rantanem, David W. Conley and Ellen R. Domb

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Simplified TRIZ is a pragmatic book. It is in the first order a nuts and bolts how-to guide for...

Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More

Morten T. Hansen

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical...

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Aug 11, 2018

Rogue Lawyer

John Grisham | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

5.7

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Character Study that Left Me Cold

This book introduces us to Sebastian Rudd, a lawyer who handles the clients no one else wants to take on. We’re talking about an older teen accused of a horrible crime and convicted by the people of his town. Or a mobster on death row. With enemies from the ranks of the police and the clients he hasn’t been able to get off, can Sebastian navigate his life?

The book is really more of a character study with several cases taking the foreground at various points. It reads like these stories were originally published separately and brought together for this book, although I haven’t researched to know if that is true or not. The ending definitely leaves things open for more books. My issue is that I had a hard time liking many of the characters and found myself actively rooting for Sebastian to lose some of his cases. The fact that all the cops were over the top corrupt didn’t help any at all. Plus Sebastian came across as a knock off of Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller character, and that certainly didn’t help matters at all since I love Mickey.