The First Law, John Lescroart
The First Law, John Lescroart
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The First Law

Author: John Lescroart

Narrator: Robert Lawrence

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

At last recovered from a near-fatal gunshot wound, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky is back at work. But instead of returning to his old job as chief of homicide detail, he’s assigned a desk job in the payroll department, where he has no business investigating murders—until his father’s closest friend is shot dead in a downtown pawn shop. Glitsky asks the new homicide lieutenant about the case, but the brass tells him to stay out of it. Guided by the Patrol Special—a private police force supervised by the SFPD that is a holdover from San Francisco's vigilante past—the police have already targeted their prime suspect: John Holiday, proprietor of a run-down local bar, and a friend and client of Dismas Hardy. Hardy has ample reason to doubt both his client’s guilt and the evidence conveniently stacked against him. Hardy turns to Glitsky for help, but when Holiday is implicated in the grisly killings of two more men, their pleas fall on hostile ears. To avoid arrest, Holiday turns fugitive, and the police believe three things: that Hardy’s a liar protecting Holiday, that Holiday is a cold-blooded killer, and that Glitsky’s a bad cop on the wrong side of the law.And as the deadly pursuit for a murderer intensifies, Hardy, Glitsky, and even their families are directly threatened by the forces that want to see Holiday brought down. Cut off from the system that they both served, denied justice from the corridors of power, and increasingly isolated at every turn, Hardy and Glitsky face their darkest hour. For when the law that is meant to shield and protect those closest to them fails, they must look to another, more primal law in order to survive.…

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

Goodreads review by John

Twist and shout! Death and gloom! Very slow start but it picked up through the middle then an ending that could’ve used a little more finesse I thought. I like the series of Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky it’s good to follow them. I seldom read them in order only because I don’t get them in order. Non......more

Goodreads review by wally

finished this morning 19th of september 2020 good read four stars really liked it kindle owned this one is a telling of an event the is told in part in at least one other story forget which one and mentioned in other stories the gunfight at pier 70 and i like how in this story lescroart addresses th......more

Goodreads review by Chris

I think that John Lescroart’s Dismas Hardy books have a nice balance of character development and plot and a good mix of thought provoking legal and criminal components. For me, book nine was a decent story and worthy entry in the series until the ending, which I found a bit cartoonish and over the......more