Advantages: well written Disadvantages: perhaps could have been more concise in places
needs to be selected. Andie DeGrasse is an aspiring actress and a single mum. She doesn't want to be serving on a jury. Unfortunately her attempt to get out of it fails as the judge selects her.
As the trial begins the former members of Cavello's mob have done deals and tell the court exactly what Cavello has done. The trial is water tight, the evidence is overwhelming and the time for the jury to be sent out is fast approaching. Cavello has one more trick up his sleeve. He knows, no jury, no verdict. Get rid of the jury, get rid of the problem....
As time moves on a second trial is about to begin. This time Cavello has been more crafty. With his contacts on the outside the second trail won't take place. Cavello escapes from the FBI and flees. He now take out vengeance on the families of those who gave evidence against him in court ...
Advantages: fast paced, guarenteed action as always from james patterson Disadvantages: will be over very quickly due to its addictiveness
I have to admit before getting into this review that I am a huge James Patterson fan, so my views may be biased based on his other books!
This book is a one off, unlike most of Patterson?s books which usually form part of the women's murder club series or the Alex cross series.
Background info on author (skip if you're a fan of James Patterson)
James Patterson is one of the biggest selling authors alive today, repeatedly hitting the bestsellers lists with every new book released. His other credentials include coming up with a slogan for toys r us. He has collaborated with a number of co authors on his books, including Maxine paetro, Andrew gross and in this book, Michael ledwidge. Andrew gross has now gone on from co authoring to release his own book, 'the blue zone', which largely follows in the footsteps of Patterson ...
Advantages: entertaining film, well acted Disadvantages: it's been done before
The Runaway Jury:
If you have ever been called up for Jury Service in the UK you know that the first few days at least are pretty boring, sitting in a room potentially for a great portion of the day without your name being called. And even if you do get called there is no guarantee that you will sit on a jury. I've done Jury service twice and I was lucky enough to be called twice, I have to say that it was interesting.
As regular Joe public I've no idea about the ins and outs of selection except that if you know the person on trial then you let someone know and they let you go. However in the US it would seem that trying to influence who sits on a Jury seems to be big business, they try to influence verdicts by getting someone who is biased to their cause. The idea of Jury selection of course is too eradicate bias but in reality it ...
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