The Plea

@2@@20@Your client is innocent. Your wife is guilty.@21@@16@@20@@21@@20@Who would you fight for?@21@@3@@2@@20@@21@@3@@2@@20@'Quite simply, THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year' John Connolly@21@@16@@20@'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin@21@@3@@2@@20@@21@@3@@2@When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to persuade him to testify against the firm.@3@@2@Eddie is not someone who is easily coerced, but when the FBI reveal that they have incriminating files on his wife, he knows he has no choice.@3@@2@But Eddie is convinced the man is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the deal, Eddie must find a way to prove his client's innocence.@3@@2@But the stakes are high - his wife is in danger. And not just from the FBI . . .@3@@2@@20@@21@@3@@2@@20@Praise for race-against-time legal thriller writer, Steve Cavanagh:@21@@3@@2@'A @20@fantastic thriller@21@ writer' Mark Billingham@3@@2@'Cavanagh stands head and shoulders above the competition, with his skilfully plotted, @20@action-packed @21@and big-hearted Eddie Flynn novels . . . @20@highly intelligent, twist-laden@21@ and @20@absolutely unputdownable@21@' @18@Eva Dolan, author of the critically acclaimed Tell No Tales@19@@3@@2@'What a @20@thriller@21@! Breathlessly @20@brilliant@21@ and fiendishly clever' Miranda Dickinson@3@@2@'A cleverly constructed legal @20@thriller combined with a classic locked-room mystery@21@. Eddie Flynn is fast becoming one of my favourite fictional heroes and Cavanagh one of my favourite thriller writers.' @18@S.J.I. Holliday, author of Black Wood@19@@3@@2@'Raymond Chandler could have created Eddie Flynn. THE PLEA is Phillip Marlowe and Michael Connolly's Mickey Haller combined, with a bit of Jim Thompson's THE GRIFTERS thrown in. A @20@superb@21@ read with a main character destined to be one of the @20@most talked about in crime fiction@21@.' @18@Howard Linskey, author of The Search@19@@3@@2@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@If you like John Grisham, Lee Child and Michael Connelly, you will LOVE the gripping and twisty Eddie Flynn series:@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@1. The Defence@16@2. The Plea@16@3. The Liar@16@4. Thirteen@3@@2@ Each Eddie Flynn thriller can be read as a standalone or in series order @3@...

The Plea is explosive, nail-bitingly tense and hilarious by turns; once I started, I just kept reading, and could hardly bear to put it down. Eddie Flynn has the potential to become one of the stars of courtroom drama, and I for one can't wait to see what he will get up to next.

Préface
A must-read for fans of Lee Child, John Grisham and Michael Connelly. Combining gripping action and ingenious plotting, THE PLEA is the brilliant new legal thriller from the author of THE DEFENCE.

Auteur
Steve Cavanagh has sold over a million copies of his novels in the UK alone. His eight books have all been nominated for major awards and many are international bestsellers. His third novel, The Liar, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year 2018. Thirteen won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2019. Fifty-Fifty was a Richard and Judy Book club choice and was also selected for the BBC 'Between the Covers' book club. Twisted, Fifty-Fifty, The Devil's Advocate and The Accomplice were all Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers.

Texte du rabat

A gripping, twisty thriller' Ian Rankin

When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify against the firm.

Eddie's not a man to be coerced into representing a guilty client, but the FBI have incriminating files on Eddie's wife, and if Eddie won't play ball, she'll pay the price.

When Eddie meets Child he's convinced the man is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the plea, Eddie must find a way to prove Child's innocence while keeping his wife out of danger - not just from the FBI, but from the firm itself.