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Title: I'm not cheering
Review: The jacket of this novel promised I would be cheering at the end - but I wasn't. The concept here is that a young lawyer, frustrated by a justice system that has allowed his brother's killer to remain free, kidnaps the parties involved and televises a multi-day trial of his own in order to convict the killer in the court of public opinion.This is just ridiculous. The final "courtroom scenes" are hard to believe, and the notion that the authorities wouldn't be able to trace the source of the television signal over course of the trial is preposterous. It is impossible to believe that such a hair-brained idea could ever work and no reasonably intelligent young lawyer would think that it could.Of course, in Patterson's novel it does work (that's where the cheering comes in). Patterson has written some decent novels but this isn't one of them
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