The Safecracker - by James Garrison (Paperback)

About the Book

A new lawyer. A safecracker client. A gang of well-heeled enemies out to silence them.

Book Synopsis

No sooner does Patricia Egan, an idealistic young lawyer, embark on a promising legal career with a boutique southern law firm than the firm breaks up and she finds herself in a supporting role to an alcoholic senior partner representing a group of cities in a visionary alternative energy project. (It's 1980, and lines for gasoline snake around the block.) Instead of saving the country, the firm loses the client, and Patricia ends up defending a small-time safecracker and escape artist named Billy Angel, while trying to overcome the senior partner's failings and rescue the firm with the help of her associate, Jack Alexander. Patricia and Jack soon discover that some of their well-heeled clients, both former and present, are not only involved in a scheme to bilk the energy project but may also have instigated the murder of a city whistleblower--during Billy Angel's ill-fated burglary of a Taco Pal restaurant. When they become obstacles to the plot, Patricia, Jack, and Billy end up in the crosshairs of the conspirators, with deadly consequences.

Review Quotes

"Award-winning author, Jim Garrison delivers a smart, multi-layered plot in the legal thriller, The Safecracker."-JOHNNIE BERNHARD, AUTHOR OF A GOOD GIRL, HOW WE CAME TO BE, AND SISTERS OF THE UNDERTOW

Garrison is a gifted writer capable of creating visual and atmospheric descriptions that are as picturesque as his action sequences are suspenseful. His dialogue sounds less like plot exposition and more like actual conversation. His characters' motivations and behaviors stay true to the personalities he has created for them, and his intricate... legal plot feels imminently credible. If novels are like safes, and sometimes they are, this one is worth cracking."-JOE KILGORE, US REVIEW OF BOOKS

"A deftly crafted and simply riveting suspense thriller of a novel by an author with an impressively effective narrative storytelling style, "The Safecracker" by James Garrison will prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections. Unreservedly recommended for ... all dedicated suspense/thriller enthusiasts ..."- D. DONOVAN, SENIOR REVIEWER, MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW