An Invisible Client by Victor Methos

My rating:

Amazon rejected this review as violation of community standards. (Ask them, I'm baffled)

This is a legal suspense drama, a legal thriller with a plot similar to the Erin Brockovich movie. This book does a number of nice things I can tell you about without spoiling a thing.

I particularly liked the frank discussion of law from Mr. Victor Methos. A real life attorney with plenty of experience.

Early in the book Mr. Methos boldly tells the reader some painful truth about our legal system.  It's about the money.  It's almost as refined as insurance actuary tables.

Juries of peers, blind justice, everyone equal…, these are all myths that may have held actual meaning in early USA history -- but today justice is a performance being "play-acted" as if it is run any different from the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship. Maybe Amazon didn't like Mr. Metho's implied clarity about this point?

A Criminal Defense

A Criminal Defense by William L. Myers Jr.

My rating:


Amazon ebook and Whispersync audiobook, read/listened in 2017 on 5/20 to page 238, and on 6/9 to the end. I loved it (4½ of 5) ?? and recommend it.

In addition to being a standard lawyer suspense novel, the type that first caught my attention when I binged on John Grisham's 1991 - The Firm, 1992 - The Pelican Brief, 1993 - The Client, it is also a mystery with more twists than a pretzel.


I'm certain the genre was around before John Grisham but, for me, he turned the genre from Graham Crackers into Hershey's Chocolate.

In March 2017 William L. Myers Jr.'s A Criminal Defense looked more appealing to me than the other Kindle First offerings that month. I'm glad I bumped this one to the top of a very long list of "to read" books.

Our author, Mr. Myers, gets us into the story quick enough. His protagonist, Mick McFarland is standing outside the home of a convicted murderer's mother who has begged him to appeal her only son's hopeless murder case. Mick took the case pro bono a and has lost two costly appeals already but his Hail Maryb legal maneuver was caught in the end zone, so now Justin Bauer will be getting a new trial. The mother has been so distraught she no longer answers the phone. So Mick is at her door to try to give her the good news. Great that Justin will get a new trial, nightmare that Mick's firm will be likely go broke from the trial.