Past Due, William Lashner
Past Due, William Lashner
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Past Due

Author: William Lashner

Narrator: Peter Francis James

Abridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/12/2004

Synopsis

A defense attorney who lives his life in shades of gray, Victor Carl fights all the right fights for all the wrong reasons. With a failing legal practice, a dead-end love life, and a pile of unpaid traffic tickets, Victor skates on the razor's edge of legal ethics in search of the easy buck. But the one absolute in Victor's life is loyalty, especially to a client -- even if he happens to be dead. Like Joey Cheaps, a no-account who takes a knife to the throat down on the waterfront, but not before he shares with his lawyer his part in a terrible crime.With his client murdered, Victor must search for a killer. But solving the crime means investigating the darkest spot in Joey Cheap's misspent youth, sending Victor on a twisting journey that leads to a missing suitcase stuffed with money, photographs of a mysterious naked woman, and a Supreme Court justice with a secret to hide. And most dangerous of all, Victor steps into the crosshairs of a vengeful enemy with a past full of pain and a taste for blood.As thrilling as it is darkly evocative, Past Due is a superb tale of crime and justice that takes the intrepid Victor Carl into brilliant new territory and confirms William Lashner's place among the top suspense writers of our time.

About William Lashner

New York Times bestselling author William Lashner is the author of seven suspense novels that have been published in more than a dozen languages throughout the world. A graduate of the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, he lives with his family outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

About Peter Francis James

Peter Francis James has starred in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, as well as on such television programs as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, New York Undercover and State of Affairs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandra on November 30, 2016

At last a new legal thriller series with a protagonist whose bent in the usual ways, but for once not so macho that I find myself repelled. Maybe because my husband was a public defender who faced impossible tasks daily, I found this story and its circumstances more believable than most. Any way, it......more

Goodreads review by Carey on March 11, 2020

A lil too long and dragged out. Many characters to keep ahold of but some of them died so it was easier to remember. the story dragged on and on. There was an unimportant subplot involving his hospitalized father telling a tale of girl he dated in his youth. This was boring to read on an account tha......more

Goodreads review by Anna RIch on December 05, 2023

This story has a noir flavor to it, which I liked, and like a lot of noirs, where things are headed and what the characters' motivations are is sometimes unclear or, unrealistic; which is also par for the (noir) course as I recall. Now that I'm about a week away from finishing, I see this was a fair......more

Goodreads review by Randhir on August 20, 2021

This is one of the best books by William Lashner that I have read. The travails of the slightly shady lawyer Victor Carl are covered with humanity and humour. The prose is excellent. The cast of characters stand out with his deft literary strokes. Victor tries to unravel the murder of a client and g......more

Goodreads review by Dave on April 19, 2018

I'm a huge William Lashner fan, and I hope he can keep churning out great Victor Carl stories. In this book, Carl defends a low life, even after he's been murdered. He does this even though his client owed him money, and even confesses earlier crimes. Carl's determination leads to crossing paths wit......more

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