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Title: Light-weight airport reading
Review: If I'd recognized the name of the author of The Tenth Justice, I might not have bought Dead Even. In this book, Meltzer recycles the characters from his first book - we have the same snappy (or is that "sappy?") dialogue between the same cardboard characters. Sara Tate is supposed to be a hard-driving attorney, yet she is also a mass of self-doubt and vulnerability who so doubts her ability to get a job that she has to cling to her position as an ADA, even when her husband's life is threatened. The same can be said of that husband, Jared (where does he get these names?), who, we are asked to believe, deeply loves his wife, but wouldn't dream of quitting his job, even though doing that job is putting his wife's life in danger. This is the sort of book that you might try when you're stuck in an airport and you're desparate for reading material.
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