The Advocate's Devil

Everything about this book is not easy to grasp. When one reads it you feel like you are in a law lecture. Of course, you will learn a lot, and that is all there is learning. If and when you decide to read this book, please do not expect a great story because it is not. I said everything about the b......more

Alan Dershowitz is a law professor, and this book feels like it is written by a law professor. It reminds me of professors when they used to give examples of murders and the like to clarify something in criminal law. It was so much fun in class! But it still doesn’t work as a novel. This book is the......more

The Advocate’s Devil initially sounds like a typographical or copying error called anastrophe where words are out of place. Of course, the title is a carefully crafted clue that the lawyer-protagonist (when one of the most respected attorneys in the United States writes a thriller, it would almost h......more

As a lawyer how do you defend a client you believe is guilty of the crime he charged with? This book gave me an insight into the rules a lawyer must follow when defending a client. The story and characters were well defined. I enjoyed the book and learned a lot.......more

Arriving at the number of stars to award this book was a lose/lose proposition. Story line is strong; characters are interesting, convincing and well drawn; my emotional involvement was significant -- but from the standpoint of fiction technique, particularly dialogue (often not grounded and too pro......more