Another winner in the Jason Lolarich series. I've gone through three so far in quick succession, and enjoyed it a lot. This one was my favorite, with a lot going on. If you liked the first two in the series, you'll probably like this one; it's pretty similar in style, although the story is much different. There's not that much courtroom drama, but it does all revolve around a case he's working on.

I'm ready to read another if I can get it. ( )

Learn from the enthusiastic blurb on the cover from James Patterson, the King of rapidly written formula thrillers. This is a decently written legal and suspense thriller. Liked the hero but the entire book seemed thin on details and depth. A good fast read but no extras. ( )

The Wrong Man seemed to be an exercise by the author to write a novel with as little believability as humanly possible in a story. I wanted to like this novel, but I couldn’t go more than a few pages without groaning at how utterly ridiculous the plot and character points were. This novel was such a mess that I don’t even know where to start.

The novel centers around the most cliché of cliché villains in fiction—the evil cabal of nefarious corporate types out to bring doom and destruction to humanity. I’ve read a variation of this type of villain so frequently that it astounds me how unoriginal authors can be, speaking as a fellow author. At the middle of it all was the white knight, the All-American American advocate of the downtrodden, Jason Kolarich, representing a mentally ill Gulf War veteran wrongfully accused of murdering a paralegal (to make it painfully obvious they even put it in the title).

There’s simply no credibility to this story. Without trying to spoil anything, any of the parts involving the Mafia were groan-inducing. Jason’s relationship with his girlfriend seemed preposterous since they had no chemistry whatsoever. Everything about the girlfriend was painful to read. The diabolical plot was bogus. For some reason, authors have a tendency of ignoring reality and making the perpetrators of terrorism wealthy American corporate types. If they just paid attention to the news, it wouldn’t take a genius to figure out who actually commit acts of terror in the real world. I would like to say something positive about this novel, but I can’t think of a single thing I liked about it.

Carl Alves – author of Blood Street ( )

I know I read the book a couple of years ago because it's in my Interlibrary Loan account. The two that I managed to review here were excellent, so I imagine this one was also. A Jason Kolarich legal suspense novel. Of all the legal court room drama novelists, David Ellis is my favorite. ( )

I liked this book a lot up until the scene where Jason and Joel attack and neutralize the goons sent by Randall Manning to kill Jason. That entire scene reminded me of the scene from Home Alone where Macauley Culkin sabotages the plans of the home invaders/robbers in an hilarious machievellian plot. Trouble is that was a feel good comedy and this is a legal thriller. Mr Ellis lost me there and from then on I felt the book slipping down hill, from his brutal attack on one of the conspirators to his outthinking the FBI. ( )