The Choice

Frank Galvin #2

by Barry Reed

Francis X. Galvin, a successful attorney, must choose between his job and his conscience when he is assigned to defend a major pharmaceutical company whose miracle drug is causing birth defects

Genres: Fiction

358 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Graduate of Holy Cross and Boston College Law School.

Boston attorney who was a recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award for trial excellence, was a past president of the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association, a former governor of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers and a co-founder of the American Society of Law and Medicine.

Reviews

[Wendy Jensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun quick read, interesting to me in that it depicts the inner workings of opposing counsel in a lawsuit. So we get to see how the procedures on one side are examined minutely for any leverage by the other side. A one-word change in a document, done illegally, can provide enough evidence to throw out the case. The existence of evidence that is not properly revealed and shared can also wreck a case. Makes me appreciate all the hard work our lawyers do on our behalf. But also makes me dismayed at all the maneuvering that can happen in high-profile cases where lots of money is involved. Maneuvering that has more to do, sometimes, with making money than with investigating and revealing the truth.

[Connie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this story, felt it was very suspense filled and liked the characters. I kept thinking I did and then didn't have it figured out, and was truly sitting on the fence until the end.

Galvin was a complicated person and suddenly developing a fondness for going baseball games in the middle of the all controversy was strange, but in a good way.

[Bob Box · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in 1992. Follow up to the riveting The Verdict, this courtroom drama finds Francis Galvin having to put his personal safety ahead of his moral princples.

[Tomi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good up until the very end - Reed wimped out. All this book building up to a climax and only a couple of pages…like he ran out of ideas…

[Ginny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Same main character as The Verdict. Frank Galvin, is torn between duty and honor.

[Joni · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Paul Raymer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting structure. Not quite sure who the protagonist was supposed to be.

[Charles Tisa]

January 1993