I think this is the most dissatisfying Patterson book ever. It's not so much that it just stops rather than ending. It's that the narrator, Michael Bennett, veers into preaching legal politics and in at least one glaring case (regarding the Supreme Court rulings on public prayer) gets the underlying facts completely wrong. And when Bennett is testifying in court he shows a shocking lack of discipline by giving far more information that needed to answer the question. Then internally he blames court procedure for the defendant's attorney interrupting with an objection, when if he'd just limited his answer to the question asked there'd have been no grounds for objection. This series might have gone about as far as it can, at least for me.