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(More customer reviews)There are two authors named Joan Brady, so watch out. It you want intelligent, creative, compelling writing, this is the Joan Brady to read. I have been hooked on this Joan Brady ever since I read her Whitbread Award winner, "Theory of War" and eagerly await each new novel. "Bleedout", which is categorized as a "thriller" (a total departure for Brady) has been worth the wait, even if, like me, you do not usually gravitate toward thrillers.
The book consists of two cleverly interwoven narratives, one, quite convincingly, from beyond the grave. That narrative is blind (and murdered) lawyer Hugh Freyl's. The other is David Marion's, a young convicted double-murderer Freyl had befriended. "Ah!," you say, "I can see it coming." Don't be too sure. As the novel develops, David becomes one of the great anti-heros in recent memory.
It is not just the main characters, Hugh and David, who are well crafted. So are most of the secondary ones. My favourite is Hugh's imperious, yet strangely endearing, mother, Becky. Perhaps it is because I have known two Beckys in my life, and Brady seems to have captured both of them in one.
With her usual meticulous research and passion, Joan Brady has taken on the prison system, corporate fraud and the American legal system. Also, it would seem, the city of Springfield, Illinois. This however, may be more of a love-hate relationship than is immediately evident.
But then, nothing is as it seems in "Bleedout".
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