The Choice

Frank Galvin #2

by Barry Reed

Frank Galvin, a smart Irishman from the tough side of town, is the star litigator at a blue-chip Boston law firm. But the irresistible lure of a beautiful woman with a devastating secret threatens his hard-won acceptance by "the establishment."

Suddenly, Frank finds himself on the wrong side of a ferocious legal war-hired to destroy the people he he trusts, loyal to those he doesn't. He's facing the biggest choice of his career-and the ultimate battle between duty and honor.

Caught in the crossfire of sexual temptation and murder, he'll call on the same unorthodox methods that made things sizzle in The Verdict. But this time, Galvin's got a lot more at stake, because winning the case could mean losing everything.

Genres: Fiction

367 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Graduate of Holy Cross and Boston College Law School.

Boston attorney who was a recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award for trial excellence, was a past president of the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association, a former governor of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers and a co-founder of the American Society of Law and Medicine.

Reviews

[Wendy Jensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun quick read, interesting to me in that it depicts the inner workings of opposing counsel in a lawsuit. So we get to see how the procedures on one side are examined minutely for any leverage by the other side. A one-word change in a document, done illegally, can provide enough evidence to throw out the case. The existence of evidence that is not properly revealed and shared can also wreck a case. Makes me appreciate all the hard work our lawyers do on our behalf. But also makes me dismayed at all the maneuvering that can happen in high-profile cases where lots of money is involved. Maneuvering that has more to do, sometimes, with making money than with investigating and revealing the truth.

[Connie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this story, felt it was very suspense filled and liked the characters. I kept thinking I did and then didn't have it figured out, and was truly sitting on the fence until the end.

Galvin was a complicated person and suddenly developing a fondness for going baseball games in the middle of the all controversy was strange, but in a good way.

[Bob Box · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in 1992. Follow up to the riveting The Verdict, this courtroom drama finds Francis Galvin having to put his personal safety ahead of his moral princples.

[Tomi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good up until the very end - Reed wimped out. All this book building up to a climax and only a couple of pages…like he ran out of ideas…

[Ginny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Same main character as The Verdict. Frank Galvin, is torn between duty and honor.

[Joni · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Paul Raymer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting structure. Not quite sure who the protagonist was supposed to be.

[Charles Tisa]

January 1993