Mistress of Justice

Zusatztext “Loaded with character and action and a very devious plot! Mistress of Justice is a top-notch legal thriller.” — Mystery Lovers News “The characters are well drawn! the plot is fast paced! and the writing avoids totally the usual trappings of blockbusterdom. . . . An intelligently written thriller.” — Booklist “This novel is a solid achievement.” — Mystery News “Deaver is a master of ticking-bomb suspense!” — People Informationen zum Autor Jeffery Deaver  is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty-five novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages. His first novel featuring Lincoln Rhyme , The Bone Collector , was made into a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. He's received or been shortlisted for a number of awards around the world, including Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers and the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association in the United Kingdom. In 2014, he was the recipient of three lifetime achievement awards. A former journalist, folksinger, and attorney, he was born outside of Chicago and has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University. Klappentext From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC series • "Loaded with character and action and a very devious plot, Mistress of Justice is a top-notch legal thriller."-Mystery Lovers News Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well. Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant, and very private man, Taylor signs on . . . only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to kno-including a plentitude of secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Yet who is capable of going to that extreme? With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn the lethal answer. . . . "The characters are well drawn, the plot is fast paced, and the writing avoids totally the usual trappings of blockbusterdom. . . . An intelligently written thriller."-Booklist CHAPTER ONE The drapery man had been warned that even though it was now well after midnight, Sunday morning of the Thanksgiving holiday, there would very likely be people in the firm here, attorneys and paralegals, still working. And so he carried the weapon at his side, pointed downward. It was a curious thing--not a knife exactly, more of an ice pick, but longer and made of a blackened, tempered metal. He held it with the confidence of someone who was very familiar with the device. And who had used it before. Dressed in gray coveralls bearing the stencil of a bogus drapery cleaning service and wearing a baseball cap, the big, sandy-haired man now paused and, hearing footsteps, slipped into an empty office. Then there was silence. And he continued on, through shadows, pausing for a long moment, frozen like a fox near a ground nest of skittish birds. He consulted the diagram of the firm, turned along one corridor and continued, gripping the handle of the weapon tightly in his hand, which was as muscular as the rest of his body. As he neared the office he sought, he reached up and pulled a paper face mask over his mouth. This was not so that he wouldn't ...

Product details

• Authors: Copyright Paperback Collection, Jeffery Deaver
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2002
• EAN: 9780553584455
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58445-5
• No. of pages: 357
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 27 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense