To The Last Page

There is not a lot of nuance in Steve Cavanagh's latest Eddie Flynn thriller, but it's true that as far as the law and morality are concerned, good and evil acts should be clearly defined. While it seems a little heavy-handed then, there's certainly no getting away from the fact that this makes for a rivetting good read, the opening chapters of The Devil's Advocate hitting with maximum impact. Beginning with a tense scene describing an Alabama DA getting off on a likely innocent man getting fried on the electric chair, there is no subtlety or ambiguity about the position of Randal Korn of Sunville County being anything less than pure evil. He even permeates a scent "as if the man was rotting from the inside out". On the other side of the coin we have New York lawyer Eddie Fynn, who if you haven't read the previous novels in the series, is a criminal lawyer who upholds the utmost standards of fairness in matters of justice and the law. As a former con man ...