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About Wrongful Death In New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's most intense and compelling legal thriller yet, attorney David Sloane returns to uncover a ruthless conspiracy that reaches farther and deeper than anything he could have imagined... Just minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful death verdict, attorney David Sloane confronts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. Beverly Ford wants Sloane to sue the United States Government and Military in the mysterious death of her husband James, a National Guardsman killed in Iraq. While a decades old military doctrine might make Ford's case impossible to win, Sloane, a former soldier himself, is compelled to find justice for the widow and her four children in what is certain to become the biggest challenge of his career. With little hard evidence to go on, Sloane calls on his friend, reclusive former CIA agent turned private investigator Charles Jenkins, to track down the other men serving with Ford the night he died. Alarmingly, two of the four who returned home alive didn't stay that way for long, and though the mission's wheelchair-bound commander now works for a civilian contractor, he refuses to talk. The final and youngest soldier is also the most elusive, but he's their only shot at discovering the truth if Sloane and Jenkins can keep him alive long enough to tell it. Meanwhile, Sloane isn't the only one on a manhunt. As he propels his case into a federal courtroom, those seeking to hide the truth threaten Sloane's family, forcing his new wife Tina and stepson Jake into hiding where they become the targets of a relentless killer. Now Sloane must race to uncover what really happened on that fatal mission, not only to bring justice to a family wronged, but to keep himself and the people closest to him from becoming the next casualties... » Wrongful Death Reader Questions and Answers |
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Book Reviews & Articles EXAMINER MAGAZINE-March 18, 2010--Wrongful Death does right by crime fiction readers Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni is a legal thriller with a healthy dose of murder, conspiracy, and mortal danger. David Sloane is a lawyer that can t be beat - until he takes on the military and the infamous Feres doctrine...Read More... EXAMINER MAGAZINE-July, 2010--Wrongful Death: an Interview with Best-selling Author Robert Dugoni In Wrongful Death, Dugoni brings back fan-favorite attorney David Sloane from Jury Master for the biggest challenge of his legal career: Seeking justice for the wrongful death of a soldier named James Ford, Sloane, a military veteran, uncovers a ruthless conspiracy in a case against the United States Government that is impossible to win...Read More... Booklist - March 15, 2009 - WRONGFUL DEATH David Sloane, the hotshot lawyer hero of Dugoni's first novel, Jury Master (2006), returns. Now living in Seattle with his wife and stepson, he finds that his ability to win difficult cases has not diminished. When the widow of a man who died in Iraq asks him to take her case, Sloane can't refuse, even though no one has ever successfully sued the U.S. government for wrongful death during a time of war and won. Facing impossible odds, Sloane starts to investigate, slowly unraveling a conspiracy that will threaten him and everyone he loves. Dugoni has improved dramatically since his first book, and this one is his best yet, mixing the suspense of a Grisham legal thriller with the political angle of a Baldacci. Dugoni is knocking on the A-list legal-thriller and can be expected to gain entrance sooner rather than later. -Jeff Ayers |
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Kirkus - February 15, 2009 - WRONGFUL DEATH An entertaining thriller about a hotshot lawyer. On behalf of Iraq War widow Beverly Ford, mother of four, David Sloane is going up against the U.S. government in a wrongful death action. He doesn t have a prayer. Every legal savant he s consulted on the subject and there have been many has told him so, and now he s a believer in the Feres doctrine, which in complicated ways makes it all but impossible to construe any military death as legally wrongful. Find a loophole in Feres, he s advised by a colleague realistic enough to take a dim view of his prospects, or you re toast. Though he knows Beverly s quest is hopeless, Sloane is convinced James Ford was a good man unjustly treated, a combination his inner knight errant can t resist. Once he s signed on, he realizes that he s in the kind of battle whose boundaries go far outside the courtroom. Someone wants the details of a certain terrible night outside Fallujah to remain a blur. Specialist Ford s Humvee got lost and ambushed in a blinding sandstorm, and Ford was killed. He wouldn t have been, Mrs. Ford insists, if the military had done what it was their clear responsibility to do: provide her husband with the proper protective armor. As Sloane s investigation deepens, untoward things happen with unsettling frequency. Key players are hard to find. Witnesses meet untimely ends. And when death threats to his wife and son are openly delivered in the most matter-of-fact tone, Sloane smells something truly rotten in the corridors of power. Good guys to like, villains to hiss, windmills to attack. If it s all a bit pat, Dugoni (Damage Control, 2007, etc.) plots deftly enough to keep most readers happy anyway. (Author tour to Chicago, Coeur D Alene, Idaho, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., Phoenix, San Jose, Calif., San Francisco, Seattle, Spokane, Wash., Tucson, Ariz.) |
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