The Devil's Advocate: The Sunday Times Bestseller (Eddie Flynn Series)

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Overall, the plotline and story develops well. Eddie and the team, of course get into scrapes but these help push the events along and allows the ever inventive, and frankly clever, Steve Cavanagh to create a number of surprises.

They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States. Though, this is still a 4⭐️ read, I didn’t enjoy it as much as past work-as Eddie Flynn and his clever cross examinations are what make the series so entertaining! We weren’t in the courtroom nearly long enough for my preferences! In fact, one out of every twenty of the death row occupants, in the U.S. was put there by Korn-as he has NEVER prosecuted a murder without calling for the death penalty, he has never been successfully appealed and he’s never lost a case.

Meanwhile Eddie’s predecessor, the local defense attorney, has disappeared and Eddie has to dig deep to keep himself and his team safe from the constant threat of menace that lingers everywhere. But one of these women is lying. One of them is a murderer. Sitting in a jail cell, about to go on trial with her sister for murder, you might think that this is the last place she expected to be. Also, the PROLOGUE can be skipped if you want to avoid reading the graphic description of the NINE excruciating minutes it took for one of Korn’s Victims to die by electric chair. Also, Mr Cavanagh you are an evil man, my husband jumped out of his skin as I was reading and suddenly screamed noooo!😱 Steve Cavanagh was born and raised in Belfast before leaving for Dublin at the age of eighteen to study Law. He practiced civil rights law and was involved in several high-profile cases; in 2010 he represented a factory worker who suffered racial abuse in the workplace and won the largest award of damages for race discrimination in Northern Ireland legal history.

Eddie's not a man to be coerced into representing a guilty client, but the FBI have incriminating files on Eddie's wife, and if Eddie won't play ball, she'll pay the price. Honestly, I found this guy very interesting. His obsession with death penalties, his aura, the way he didn’t get off by physically killing people but by killing with his legal power really made me wonder and want to know more about him. He has had a tragic past which makes sense but I’m glad what happened to him later cause he had it coming. Korn had an unusual distaste for human life in general. He told himself it didn’t really matter what color his victims were. They all screamed and died the same. Yet, the underlying racism of authority in the South was ever present. He’d seen it his whole career. But this was the first time he’d heard it spoken aloud in a more public conversation. This wasn’t a whispered discussion among two conspirators. It was out in the open now. The silence which followed the statement was not uncomfortable. If anything, it felt natural for it to come out in the open now, in these times.” With The Devil’s Advocate, we’ve reached book six in Steve Cavanagh’s highly acclaimed series featuring New York-based con man-turned-attorney Eddie Flynn. And hold onto your hats folks, because this time Eddie has left the Big Apple behind! Eddie Flynn, also called as the loveee of my life, my role model and all time- fav character really outdid himself in this book😭😭 The way he dealt with pressure and how he planned everything out was I N S A N E. I’m in love with his charm, his personality, his way of getting things done, his brain and him🥵🥵

When Eddie meets Child he's convinced the man is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the plea, Eddie must find a way to prove Child's innocence while keeping his wife out of danger - not just from the FBI, but from the firm itself. So Eddie and his friend and mentor, former judge Harry Forbes (who now works as a consultant on Eddie’s cases), head to Alabama. It is clear from the start that they are most unwelcome in the town. Neither of the hotels, which have vacancy signs lit, will give them a room. Everyone in the town is convinced of Andy’s guilt. The next day Eddie’s law partner, Kate Brooks, and their investigator, former police officer Bloch, arrive in town. At least they manage to swing some rooms for them.

Taking Eddie out of the city adds a new dimension to the story. The setting of Alabama adds a level of tension that’s hard to explain – a god fearing, gun loving, historically, very racially divided state. I’m not sure there could have been a better place to set the story. That is not to say that all of the locals have been painted in a negative light and there are many who are willing to step up and be counted when they see corruption in pay, no matter which side of the racial divide they stand on. But it is a kind of tinderbox situation, that small town vibe, the suspicion of big city outsiders, and that undercurrent of extremism that feeds throughout the story which stems from a point of some very thorough research and total authenticity.Korn knew it. And he didn’t care. He didn’t become a prosecutor in a death-penalty state to concern himself with guilt or innocence. It was the system that appealed to him. Justice was simply a cloak he wore to disguise his true nature.” If you want great Southern books by those who are seeking to bring honest looks, yet real characters, all the layers needed, I suggest S.A. Cosby & his recs (I reached out to him to ask)-David Joy, Brian Panowich, Laura Hightower, Alice Walker, Ernest J. Gaines and Deesha Philyaw. Y'all, we have to be brave readers & admit when we want to take a path of least resistance. On tough topics, we need to choose otherwise. But if he uses this evidence in court, both he and his client - the dead man's widow - will be in mortal danger. I enjoyed getting to know more of Eddie's team in this one, Kate and Bloch, and of course I love Judge Harry. I did want more court room time and more of Eddie's legal maneuvering. Take a sadistic District Attorney and picture him in a small county in Alabama. He is a master at obtaining death sentences in every one of his murder cases. Until he meets Eddie Flynn.