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The Jury #2
Adjourned
This is an ALL-NEW edition, completely revised and reformatted for 2011 ...
From LEE GOLDBERG, bestselling author of THE WALK and the MONK mysteries, comes the second, action-packed book in the JURY SERIES saga.
After a family tragedy, Brett Macklin has sworn to take the law into his own hands and make the guilty pay. This time, Macklin's target is Wesley Saputo, porn kingpin and murderer, who has slipped through the courts time after time, only to kidnap, rape and kill again...and again. Macklin's locate and destroy Saputo before he finds another innocent life to destroy.
(Originally published as "Make Them Pay," the second book in the ".357 Vigilante" series, under the pen name Ian Ludlow.)
Other books in the
JUDGMENT
PAYBACK
GUILTY
About the
Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award nominee. His TV writing and/or producing credits include "Hunter," "SeaQuest," "Spenser For Hire," "Diagnosis Murder," "Martial Law" and "Monk." His books include "Beyond the Beyond," "The Walk," "Man with the Iron-On Badge," "Successful Television Writing," and the "Diagnosis Murder" and "Monk" series of original mystery novels.
From LEE GOLDBERG, bestselling author of THE WALK and the MONK mysteries, comes the second, action-packed book in the JURY SERIES saga.
After a family tragedy, Brett Macklin has sworn to take the law into his own hands and make the guilty pay. This time, Macklin's target is Wesley Saputo, porn kingpin and murderer, who has slipped through the courts time after time, only to kidnap, rape and kill again...and again. Macklin's locate and destroy Saputo before he finds another innocent life to destroy.
(Originally published as "Make Them Pay," the second book in the ".357 Vigilante" series, under the pen name Ian Ludlow.)
Other books in the
JUDGMENT
PAYBACK
GUILTY
About the
Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award nominee. His TV writing and/or producing credits include "Hunter," "SeaQuest," "Spenser For Hire," "Diagnosis Murder," "Martial Law" and "Monk." His books include "Beyond the Beyond," "The Walk," "Man with the Iron-On Badge," "Successful Television Writing," and the "Diagnosis Murder" and "Monk" series of original mystery novels.
123 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 5, 2009
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Lee Goldberg
159 books2,122 followersLee Goldberg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over forty novels, including Malibu Burning, Calico, Lost Hills (the first novel in his acclaimed "Eve Ronin" series), 15 "Monk" mysteries, five "Fox & O'Hare" adventures (co-written with Janet Evanovich), and the new thriller Ashes Never Lie, the second in his "Sharpe & Walker" series.. He's written and/or produced many TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and Monk and he co-created the Hallmark movie series Mystery 101.
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February 27, 2024
Read like a very poorly researched pulp novel
April 4, 2023
To start with, my copy is the Pinnacle book from 1985. Have no idea why it's not listed here. The cover depicts three middle aged men crowding around a terrified and confused little red headed girl with pigtails. One of the men has a video camera and his hand is moving in a southerly direction on his pants. While another has some low riding pants, and he is pulling his shirt up. Pretty unsettling stuff. Even for an action book of the 80's.
Brett Macklin is the vigilante. He thought he was done with that when he avenged his father's murder a year before. He's pulled back in by the mayor of L.A. Only one of two that know who he is, to take out a rich scumbag who is producing kiddie porn.
This time around, though, Macklin wants someone to justify his actions, so they bring in a former judge to review his findings and pass sentence. Since the accused are child exploiters and kiddie killers, and this is a shoot 'em up no brainer action novel, he finds them guilty and sentences them to death.
Brett Macklin is the vigilante. He thought he was done with that when he avenged his father's murder a year before. He's pulled back in by the mayor of L.A. Only one of two that know who he is, to take out a rich scumbag who is producing kiddie porn.
This time around, though, Macklin wants someone to justify his actions, so they bring in a former judge to review his findings and pass sentence. Since the accused are child exploiters and kiddie killers, and this is a shoot 'em up no brainer action novel, he finds them guilty and sentences them to death.
June 2, 2013
The Jury is back and this time he is after a kiddie porn King. Even better than the first this is brutal fun.
Macklin is Charles Bronson on speed, the Genie of the Death Wish.
Fans of old school like, the Destroyer, Bolan and all those 70's and 80's one man vigilante novels will wet
Themselves in delight and polish their mental 357. Magnums in anticipation of the next story.
Although the subject matter is unsettling Goldberg handles it well enough.
The lead character is a cool macho man who is once again caught up in events that draw him magnetically
On a course with sex and violence.
Explosive!
Please read before going to war.
Macklin is Charles Bronson on speed, the Genie of the Death Wish.
Fans of old school like, the Destroyer, Bolan and all those 70's and 80's one man vigilante novels will wet
Themselves in delight and polish their mental 357. Magnums in anticipation of the next story.
Although the subject matter is unsettling Goldberg handles it well enough.
The lead character is a cool macho man who is once again caught up in events that draw him magnetically
On a course with sex and violence.
Explosive!
Please read before going to war.
October 29, 2014
Ronny Shaw is asked by the Mayor to contact Brett. The mayor wants help in getting rid of a recently released criminal. The man they want put away is making porn movies using young kids. The young actress are then being used by him for sex and then killed and disposed of. The police can't touch him so they mayor wants Brett to step in as Mr. Jury and do the job they aren't able to do.
Brett loses another person close to him in his pursuit of this creep, which makes him feel like Mr. Jury is taking over his personality like a virus.
This is an okay series. Not sure about the level of violence, but want to finish so that I can see what happens. Two more installments to go.
Brett loses another person close to him in his pursuit of this creep, which makes him feel like Mr. Jury is taking over his personality like a virus.
This is an okay series. Not sure about the level of violence, but want to finish so that I can see what happens. Two more installments to go.
March 28, 2013
This fulfilled my expectations and I was not disappointed.I enjoyed it because it was a bit different from the usual crime or mystery novels I have read as few as that is.It was better in many ways than similar books that I have read.The author appeared as the narrator and it was appropriate.At first I was not pulled and then as I continued reading I was.The characters were realistic and I liked them for what they were.The characters actions were plausible because I have a feeling that in some places there are people like this. I agree with many of the moral decisions because many times our justice system doesn't work. It fits the genre to an extent. It follows many characters.
August 5, 2012
A fast-paced, action-packed book. Like a Charles Bronson movie in your head. Loved it.
abandoned
August 20, 2012It took only a few pages for me to realize this has too much explicit language, sex, and violence for my taste.
September 4, 2017
Second in the series by Lee Goldberg. A vigilante called "Mr. Jury" is ridding the city of criminals.
December 29, 2018
You can see the made-for-TV movie playing in your head.
March 14, 2019
Adjourned
Another great story with Mack almost being forced to defend himself and those he loves. Glad he is leaning more to justice rather than being purely a vigalante.
Another great story with Mack almost being forced to defend himself and those he loves. Glad he is leaning more to justice rather than being purely a vigalante.
July 3, 2023
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Based on a book by Dorothy Fields and bursting with music by Irving Berlin, the musical ANNIE GET YOUR GUN became a runaway hit on Broadway in 1946, eventually finishing with more than eleven hundred performances. In her own rights a big Hollywood star at the time and often hailed as the Queen of the musical stage, Ethel Merman nowadays is probably most famous for a song from that very musical about a fictional version of the very real Annie Oakley and her stint in Wild Bill's Wild West traveling road show. "There's No Business Like Show Business," aimed to woo a hesitant Annie is often used to highlight the glitz and excitement of show business (in Hollywood), totally missing the tongue-in cheek homage to the trials and tribulations of living in the limelight. There is a flip side to that coin. A dark side to show business and the many hangers-on and lampreys that teem just outside of the glitter. Swimming in the raw sewage that is para Hollywood is ADJOURNED, the renamed and repackaged pulp novel MAKE THEM PAY of THE .357 VIGILANTE series, dealing with the lewd, concupiscent, and shunned other side of the film industry.
Undergoing a face lift and a title change for the more sensitive readers of the second decade of the new millennium, the new ADJOURNED is still the same topic and content and it's doubtful that it would've seen the light of day in today's weary publishing circuit, (though with S.A. Cosby's ALL THE SINNERS BLEED and Jordan Harper's EVERYBODY KNOWS on the shelves that might not be the case). Broaching the touchy topic of filmed child abuse of the worst kind, MAKE THEM PAY drops THE .357 VIGILANTE into the heyday of '80s action megalomania: 1985, taking the reader all the way back to a time of VHS, cassette tapes, street maps, Canon AE-1 cameras, and newspapers. It was a time when glam justice shlock ruled the day; honest cops put em in jail and the liberal judges or wonky shrinks let 'em loose. Popularized by DEATH WISH in the early 1970s and carried on for more than a decade by movies like DIRTY HARRY, the DEATH WISH sequels, THE EXTERMINATOR, THE STAR CHAMBER, THE EQUALIZER (TV series), COBRA and more, it's a tried and true formula that once again rings true in the aftermath of the pandemic and ensuing civil unrest. The legal machine always works slowly, if it even works at all.
Bursting with local flavor the likes of KROQ-FM, Al's Star Burgers, Ralph's, Santa Ana Winds, Catalina Island, and the famous Cock 'n Bull Pub, MAKE THEM PAY also fronts the unavoidable of a city that racked up about 1,400 homicides a year in the days of yore. The body of a ten year old girl is found in the LA River and has a pair of mismatched LAPD Sergeants baffled, worrying the City of Angels' mayor in a major way, looking furtively to the ace up his sleeve. Brett "Mack" Macklin, or "Mr. jury", is under the Mayor's control, or so his honor thinks. Mack will no longer dance to the extortionist tune that the mayor's fiddling. He's got leverage of his own, and he's out of the game. The former UCLA track and fielder and retired vigilante is now a charter pilot with his own little business in Santa Monica. On the side, he tries to restore old Cadillac cars when the big cheese of Los Angeles doesn't force him into his dark past for extra-legal killings. All it takes to get Mack back into his vintage '59 Cadillac with the .357 Magnum in the glove box is to dote on the injustice. That's the justification. The law isn't working and too many criminals are going free and too many innocent people are getting hurt. The prospect to go after dirty pornographers triggers that sweet, addictive charge of vigilantism, like UCLA track comps, just more dangerous and potentially deadly. MAKE THEM PAY isn't Shakespeare. It's not supposed to be. It's exciting, violent, swift--a hard-core police drama. Get into this thriller and out of the streets before court's ADJOURNED.
Based on a book by Dorothy Fields and bursting with music by Irving Berlin, the musical ANNIE GET YOUR GUN became a runaway hit on Broadway in 1946, eventually finishing with more than eleven hundred performances. In her own rights a big Hollywood star at the time and often hailed as the Queen of the musical stage, Ethel Merman nowadays is probably most famous for a song from that very musical about a fictional version of the very real Annie Oakley and her stint in Wild Bill's Wild West traveling road show. "There's No Business Like Show Business," aimed to woo a hesitant Annie is often used to highlight the glitz and excitement of show business (in Hollywood), totally missing the tongue-in cheek homage to the trials and tribulations of living in the limelight. There is a flip side to that coin. A dark side to show business and the many hangers-on and lampreys that teem just outside of the glitter. Swimming in the raw sewage that is para Hollywood is ADJOURNED, the renamed and repackaged pulp novel MAKE THEM PAY of THE .357 VIGILANTE series, dealing with the lewd, concupiscent, and shunned other side of the film industry.
Undergoing a face lift and a title change for the more sensitive readers of the second decade of the new millennium, the new ADJOURNED is still the same topic and content and it's doubtful that it would've seen the light of day in today's weary publishing circuit, (though with S.A. Cosby's ALL THE SINNERS BLEED and Jordan Harper's EVERYBODY KNOWS on the shelves that might not be the case). Broaching the touchy topic of filmed child abuse of the worst kind, MAKE THEM PAY drops THE .357 VIGILANTE into the heyday of '80s action megalomania: 1985, taking the reader all the way back to a time of VHS, cassette tapes, street maps, Canon AE-1 cameras, and newspapers. It was a time when glam justice shlock ruled the day; honest cops put em in jail and the liberal judges or wonky shrinks let 'em loose. Popularized by DEATH WISH in the early 1970s and carried on for more than a decade by movies like DIRTY HARRY, the DEATH WISH sequels, THE EXTERMINATOR, THE STAR CHAMBER, THE EQUALIZER (TV series), COBRA and more, it's a tried and true formula that once again rings true in the aftermath of the pandemic and ensuing civil unrest. The legal machine always works slowly, if it even works at all.
Bursting with local flavor the likes of KROQ-FM, Al's Star Burgers, Ralph's, Santa Ana Winds, Catalina Island, and the famous Cock 'n Bull Pub, MAKE THEM PAY also fronts the unavoidable of a city that racked up about 1,400 homicides a year in the days of yore. The body of a ten year old girl is found in the LA River and has a pair of mismatched LAPD Sergeants baffled, worrying the City of Angels' mayor in a major way, looking furtively to the ace up his sleeve. Brett "Mack" Macklin, or "Mr. jury", is under the Mayor's control, or so his honor thinks. Mack will no longer dance to the extortionist tune that the mayor's fiddling. He's got leverage of his own, and he's out of the game. The former UCLA track and fielder and retired vigilante is now a charter pilot with his own little business in Santa Monica. On the side, he tries to restore old Cadillac cars when the big cheese of Los Angeles doesn't force him into his dark past for extra-legal killings. All it takes to get Mack back into his vintage '59 Cadillac with the .357 Magnum in the glove box is to dote on the injustice. That's the justification. The law isn't working and too many criminals are going free and too many innocent people are getting hurt. The prospect to go after dirty pornographers triggers that sweet, addictive charge of vigilantism, like UCLA track comps, just more dangerous and potentially deadly. MAKE THEM PAY isn't Shakespeare. It's not supposed to be. It's exciting, violent, swift--a hard-core police drama. Get into this thriller and out of the streets before court's ADJOURNED.
May 31, 2025
exciting quick read
Lee Goldberg continues to show his early writings talent. He has since gotten better and better. Bummed that he killed off the girlfriend. A quick turnaround to the journalist. Will she rat him out? On to the next book to find out.
Lee Goldberg continues to show his early writings talent. He has since gotten better and better. Bummed that he killed off the girlfriend. A quick turnaround to the journalist. Will she rat him out? On to the next book to find out.
August 14, 2023
Vigilante justice through and through. The writing is good. The crimes are gritty and disturbing.
June 8, 2012
This was my first introduction to Lee Goldberg's writing. This is the second book in a series and I probably would have been better served to have read the first book before reading this one, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I am not sure if there is another book following this one, but I would read it if there was.
September 23, 2014
Excellent sequel and a stand-alone read. Great action.
Macklin portrays a vigilante who seeks payback and justice. He's a hero in my book. I enjoyed reading about him going after some of the scumbags in his city. Although I believe in our laws, they are definitely bogged down in too many rules that defy prosecution. Vigilantism is the answer to that in this action packed story.
Macklin portrays a vigilante who seeks payback and justice. He's a hero in my book. I enjoyed reading about him going after some of the scumbags in his city. Although I believe in our laws, they are definitely bogged down in too many rules that defy prosecution. Vigilantism is the answer to that in this action packed story.
February 2, 2016
Easy Fun Read
Adjourned was a pleasant diversion. Not too deep, not too complex and fast paced. This is the second in the series and I may or may not read more.
I found the characters likable but a bit predictable.
Adjourned was a pleasant diversion. Not too deep, not too complex and fast paced. This is the second in the series and I may or may not read more.
I found the characters likable but a bit predictable.
April 28, 2013
Reading on my Kindle. Finished second in series. Next is Payback. Not so sure I want to read it if it is going to be like the first and second. They were just the same thing over and over.
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