Betrayal, John Lescroart
Betrayal, John Lescroart
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Betrayal

Author: John Lescroart

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 14 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/26/2008


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart presents an ambitious thriller featuring San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy.“Betrayal is provocative…a tour de force of a legal thriller.”—The Providence JournalDismas Hardy agrees to take an appeal to overturn the murder conviction of National Guard reservist Evan Scholler. Scholler had plenty of reasons for revenge—but as Dismas delves into the case, he begins to uncover a terrible truth that drops him right into the complicated world of government conspiracy, assassination, and betrayal...

About John Lescroart

American thriller author, John Lescroart, was born in Houston, TX in 1948. He graduated from high school in San Mateo, CA, and then earned a B. A. in English with honors at UC Berkeley in 1970.

Lescroart held many varied jobs through his early years out of college. Everything from bartender, moving man, house painter to singer/songwriter with his own band.

John has written more than twenty novels and several screenplays. His most popular novels are the Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky series and the Wyatt Hunt series. His books are translated and sold in more than seventy-five countries. He is also popular with his blogs at johnlescroart.com, Twitter, and Facebook.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Jeffrey on 2009-05-27 17:08:55

As modern as the daily newspaper, this is a top notch legal thriller. I couldn't put it down.

Goodreads review by David on January 23, 2009

This book is billed as a Dismis Hardy/Abe Glitsky novel--- It is only MARIGINALLY so.. Dismis and Abe appear in the prologu, and in the novel's climax, but most of this novel is far from being Lescroart's regular stuff.. That's not to discount it.. It still is a walloping page turner of a book that......more

Goodreads review by Linda on March 27, 2015

This is as Disnis Hardy book that I had not yet read. It is quite different from the other books in this series, in that Dismis is far from the main character in the book, his client Evan Scholler is. The story bounces back and forth between Iraq and the US in the first few chapters, but then takes......more

Goodreads review by Mary JL on May 07, 2015

This is another excellent addition to the several "Dismas Hardy" books I have read. Unlike most of the books in the series, Dismas comes in at the end of a case. He is simply handling an appeal of a murder conviction in a case already tried. The original lawayer has disappeared so the judge asks Hard......more

Goodreads review by Julie on February 07, 2009

This book was all over the place. Almost half of it was backstory that was so detailed only to then jump into the present that skipped chunks of timeline. None of the characters were remotely appealing. The ending was supposed to be shocking but was more tired than anything. I was so disappointed.......more