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Dead Peasants.
Thompson, Larry D. (Author)
Oct 2012. 304 p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, hardcover,
$25.99. (9781250009494).
Jack Bryant is an
übersuccessful lawyer who decides to retire after winning a huge wrongful-death
case. Jack moves back home to Fort Worth where he can spend more time with his
college-football-playing son. But he’s really too young to be retired, so he
sets up an old RV in a bad part of town, offering free legal help to whoever
needs it, and stumbles upon one of the biggest cases in his career. June Davis,
widow, accidentally discovers that her husband’s former employer had a very
large life-insurance policy, a “dead peasant” policy, on her husband, which
made the employer the beneficiary. A string of seemingly unrelated accidental
deaths are paying off handsomely for the financially strapped business. There isn’t much to the mystery that most
readers won’t figure out in a hurry, but legal-fiction fans will still
appreciate the courtroom scenes. The pacing is fast, the characters well
developed, and the lawyer is likable. Grisham aficionados should be delighted
with Thompson.
— Stacy Alesi
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