Semiautomatic, Robert Reuland
Semiautomatic, Robert Reuland
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Semiautomatic

Author: Robert Reuland

Narrator: Jason Collins

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2008

Synopsis

On Brooklyn's treacherous streets, having a conscience can be a dangerous commodity. When Andrew Giobberti, exiled from Homicide to Appeals, suddenly finds himself in demand in the prosecution of the horrific murder of a beloved neighborhood grocer, he cannot know the hornet's nest of lies and double-dealing he will uncover. With the newspapers and the powers-that-be insisting Gio convict the supposed perp at any cost, his capacity for fair play and diligence leads him to a shocking conspiracy that reaches all the way to the top—and in a world founded on corruption and cover-ups, this fine-tuned sense of justice could just cost him his life …

About Robert Reuland

ROBERT REULAND is a criminal attorney in Brooklyn specializing in homicide defense. For many years he served as a senior assistant district attorney in the Homicide Bureau of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. A graduate of Cambridge University and the Vanderbilt University School of Law, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Christine, and their two children.

About Jason Collins

Jason Collins   Over the past twenty-one years, Mr. Collins has been seen on Northwest Stages including The Group Theatre, TAG, Village Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Children’s Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre and The Seattle Repertory Theatre. Favorite roles include Seymour in Little Shop Of Horrors, (Village Theatre) and Matt in The Fantasticks, (ACT). Mr. Collins has had the good fortune and distinct pleasure to be involved with two collaborations with Speeltheatre, Holland at the Seattle Children’s Theatre; Nicky Somewhere Else and more recently Glittra’s Mission. Mr. Collins has received three prestigious Footlight Awards for his work as Huck Finn in Big River and Valentine LaMar in Babes In Arms, (both with Village Theatre) and Finn in Into The West (for Seattle Children’s Theatre). In addition to Live Theatre, Mr. Collins can be heard on the original cast recordings of David Austin’s A Christmas Carol and Bucket Of Blood.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jack on October 06, 2024

4 Stars. This one frustrates and infuriates. At times, you want to grab a character and demand, "You can't stop; what do you mean by that comment?" But persistence is often rewarding, never more important than with 'Semiautomatic.' The book grows on you. It's about life in Brooklyn, from the toughne......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on November 10, 2012

I had a really, really hard time trying to finish this book. The plot is interesting, the characters are quite well drawn, there is a lot of humor in the book, and, most importantly, the "seamy and seedy world" of Brooklyn DA office politics is shown with incisive insight. Mr. Reuland worked in the......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on April 28, 2013

The description makes it sound like a thriller. But it ain't. It's about an average guy in the Brooklyn DA's office. He never has a thought or observation he doesn't think worthy of telling the reader. That fills in the ordinariness of DA life, but can't say it's thrilling. Yes, he wrestles with his......more

Goodreads review by Robert on January 20, 2008

(In the interest of full disclosure Reuland is a friend. ) Reuland's second book brings back his hero/antihero, Andrew Giobberti, a prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York. Following a failed case, Giobberti is shuffling work in prosecutorial Siberia in the Academic Appeals Office—his career seemingly over......more

Quotes

“There are many many lawyers-turned-novelists who seem so very well-pleased with their work. They should all read Semiautomatic, then eat a very large slice of humble pie. Semiautomatic is the real thing; Rob Reuland is a real writer.” James Patterson

“Shines with fantastic imagery, sharp dialogue, and sparkling detail. An engrossing, morally complex winner.” George Pelecanos, New York Times bestselling author

“Robert Reuland writes beautifully—about sadness and cities and injured dreams. First with Hollowpoint and now with Semiautomatic, he has renewed my faith in the health and future of the urban crime novel.” Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author

“A novel-lover’s treat. It is one of those very rare books that manage to be smart, compelling, witty, and important all at once. Robert Reuland skips the by-the-numbers nonsense of generic legal thrillers and instead offers a fully detailed world of vivid characters and a troubled court system, and he reminds us why we find stories about the law so fascinating.” David Liss, New York Times bestselling author

“Semiautomatic is notable not for violence but for subtle characterizations, moral ambiguities and exceptional writing…In stylistic terms it’s the best-written legal thriller…hands down.” Washington Post

“Reuland avoids by-the-numbers storytelling and die-cut morality, tracing a tortuous path through the Brooklyn underworld and tossing off impolitic remarks with a studied carelessness…There’s a redemption story thinly camouflaged under the procedural tangle, giving this noirish legal thriller grace and gravitas.” Publishers Weekly

“Reuland, himself a veteran of the Brooklyn DA’s Homicide Bureau, vividly brings to life this gritty morality tale and draws us deep inside the protagonist’s troubled psyche.” Booklist

“Reuland is a real-life ADA, and if he prosecutes as effectively as he writes, Brooklyn is a lucky borough.” Kirkus Reviews

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