Sue Me by Warren Murphy

Sue Me by Warren Murphy

Lawyers are the big bad guys of the sixty-sixth Destroyer novel. These are the sorts of lawyers that are disparagingly referred to as “ambulance chasers”. In this case, however, the lawyers are not content to wait for accidents to happen, they create incidents in which dozen, hundreds, or even thousands of people are killed so that they can step in and represent them earning millions for themselves with each case. Remo and Chiun get the task of stopping them from doing this, but Smith won’t simply let them kill the lawyers. He wants evidence of their wrong doing so he can prosecute them to try and dissuade others from emulating their misdeeds.

 

This novel didn’t really work for me. I never believed in the threat these men’s fixer presented to Remo and Chiun and the effort to satirize the legal profession fell short. Sometimes these books feel like Murphy was going through the motions and this was one of them.