A Mysterious Review of Reckless Disregard by Robert Rotstein. A Parker Stern Legal Thriller.
Review summary: Creatively combining a legal thriller with a murder mystery, this is a very entertaining novel with a diverse and well-drawn cast of characters in a storyline that unfolds in an unpredictable manner, one which will draw readers in and keep their attention until the very end. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Reckless Disregard
Robert Rotstein
A Parker Stern Legal Thriller
Seventh Street Books (June 2014)
Publisher synopsis: Former topnotch attorney Parker Stern, still crippled by courtroom stage fright, takes on a dicey case for an elusive video game designer known to the world only by the name of "Poniard." In Poniard's blockbuster online video game, Abduction!, a real-life movie mogul is charged with kidnapping and murdering a beautiful actress who disappeared in the 1980s. Predictably, the mogul — William "the Conqueror" Bishop — has responded with a libel lawsuit. Now it's up to Parker to defend the game designer in the suit.
In defending Poniard, Parker discovers that people aren't who they claim to be and that nothing is as it seems. At one point, his client resorts to blackmail, threatening to expose a dark secret about Parker. Then, many of the potential witnesses who could have helped the case die prematurely, and the survivors are too frightened to talk. Parker begins to feel as if he's merely a character in a video game, fighting malevolent Level Bosses who appear out of nowhere and threaten to destroy him.
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