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Dead Even
by: Brad Meltzer

Amazon.com's Price: $7.99
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Amazon.com Details:
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446607339
ISBN: 0446607339
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: March 01, 1999
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
Sales Rank: 276821




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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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

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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Dead Even - Brad Meltzer
Got this really, really fast & a great price. Can't wait to get through my pile of books to be able to read it.



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - convoluted
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.



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Terrible
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.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Dead Even
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.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Exciting and Thrilling
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!