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The Defense by Steve Cavanagh
3★
Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two jobs aren’t all that different. He vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again after a case gone disastrously wrong. But today Eddie doesn’t have a choice. Because this time, it’s personal. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie’s beloved ten-year-old daughter. Now Eddie has exactly forty-eight hours to draw upon his razor-sharp instincts and use every con, bluff, grit, and trick in the book to defend an impossible trial and save his daughter―or die trying. A lot of novels require the reader to "suspend their disbelief"...but I found this one required it a few too many times. Eddie was a character that just tried too hard to be believable and might have pulled it off if the bad guys had not been so repetitive. There were some interesting twists and really good plot lines to the story...enough so that it got 3 stars from me. If you are a fan of John Graham novels...which I am... then you will find enough redeeming value in Eddie to continue reading.
