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    Damage
    Damage
    Damage
    Audiobook13 hours

    Damage

    Written by John Lescroart

    Narrated by David Colacci

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    About this audiobook

    The Curtlees are a powerful force in San Francisco, unscrupulous billionaires who’ve lined every important pocket in the Bay Area in pursuit of their own ascent. So when the family’s heir, Ro Curtlee, was convicted of rape and murder a decade ago, the fallout for those who helped to bring him to justice was swift and uncompromising. The jury foreman was fired from his job and blacklisted in his industry. The lead prosecutor was pushed off the fast track, her dreams of becoming district attorney dashed. And head homicide detective Abe Glitsky was reassigned to the police department’s payroll office. Eventually, all three were able to rebuild their lives.

    And then Ro Curtlee’s lawyers won him a retrial, and he was released from jail.

    Within twenty-four hours, a fire destroys the home of the original trial’s star witness, her abused remains discovered in the ruins. When a second fire claims a participant in the case, Abe is convinced: Ro is out for revenge. But with no hard evidence and an on-the-take media eager to vilify anyone who challenges Ro, can Abe stop the violence before he finds himself in its crosshairs? How much more can he sacrifice to put Ro back behind bars?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 4, 2011
    ISBN9781441802606
    Damage
    Author

    John Lescroart

    John Lescroart is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine previous novels, including the The Rule of Law, Poison, and Fatal. His books have sold more than ten million copies and have been translated into twenty-two languages. He lives in Northern California.

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    • 3/5
      I would probably have enjoyed this book more if I weren't an attorney myself. Most of the book was devoted to talk about tactics. The very interesting premise kept me going to the end, however.
    • 5/5
      Awesome suspense and story, these are my favorite characters always
    • 5/5
      The forst book by this author I have read. A very good book...a great summer read that will continue to draw you in to the story...despite a little bit too much of back and forth between character stories, it was still a fun read. The more or less "surprise" near the end was not too difficult to guess earlier in the book...the plot line provided too many clues to the only real solution to one of the crimes - some of those clues did not need to be in the book for the flow of the plot. But still worth the reading.
    • 4/5
      Lescroart churns out his twenty-second novel with the ferocity of a mother lion defending her cub, and indeed she is. Mrs. Curtlee’s boy Ro has been tried for the rape and murder of the family maid and seeing as the Curtlee's own the local newspaper and had a lot to do with getting the new District Attorney elected, they want to get their unjustly-punished son out of jail.

      Wes Farrell, the new DA is still getting his feet wet in San Francisco politics and allows a little infl uence to go a long way. As soon as Ro is out of jail, the bodies start turning up. One of the two witnesses who originally helped convict him is brutally murdered and her home burned, as is the wife of the lead juror who put him away. Ro has cojones, showing up at the home of lead homicide detective, Abe Glitsky, just to give him some of the same harassment the police are handing out. Is he that brazen or is it an attempt to make the
      police believe he really is innocent, nothing to hide? When a lead investigator, who is following Ro shows up with a bullet in his head, the police decide enough is enough and do everything in their power to get Ro back in jail, before he kills the last witness standing.

      Lescroart does a great job in casting suspicions to make you think perhaps a copy-cat rapist is at work. He shows the reader several out and out truths that the police are yet to discover, leaving his audience a step ahead, creating a sense of urgency as we hope that they will pick up on the clues before it’s too late. We find out that like a leopard, Ro just can’t change his spots, and after raping another household maid a week after getting his new-found freedom, Lescroart leads us down a coiling path that leaves you gasping, as twist after twist are unraveled in the end.
    • 5/5
      Fast paced, typical Lescroart read....with a twist at the end. Loved it!
    • 3/5
      Well, as promised, I read another Lescroat. This one I did not care for as much as The Motive. I still found his scenarios un necessarily complicated and the 'good guys' making too many stupid mistakes. I almost started rooting for the bad guy. I also found the language over the top nasty! Not sure I will read any more of his stuff or not.
    • 4/5
      In "Damage" by John Lescroat, Detective Glitsky from the San Francisco Bay area is pulled into a rape and murder investigation of a convicted murderer who is out on bail pending a second hearing. Between the threats on the jury foreman, the district attorney, household help of the billionaire newspaper owners, the plot is complex, fast moving and captures and holds the attention of the readers. It has a bit of international human trade, political intrigue and influence, and a bit of love and loyalty between friends and families. In this book there is something for everyone who loves fast moving action and intrigue. I thoroughly enjoyed this book on audio and recommend it to all mystery lovers.
    • 5/5
      Last review of a book I read during the week after my surgery - reading comfort food (I'm sure you're sick of hearing that phrase).John Lescroart writes incredibly dependable crime fiction. He's developed a range of characters that he writes regularly about, but I'll admit that the team of Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitzky is my favorite of them.I love books where authors pay attention to their secondary characters in terms of development within all the books, but I especially love it when they get to come out to play. In this book Abe Glitzky is at the center of a case that shows off some of San Francisco's ugliness. It's a wealthy city and where there is lots of wealth and privilege there is usually an equal amount of entitlement - this is true everywhere and it's true in San Francisco, too.In this case it's what seems like an almost futile chase after the son of a prominent family whose habit of raping and killing immigrant women who work for his family has put him in jail once. Out on appeal, and witnesses and other people related to his earlier conviction start dying in pretty hideous ways. It's up to Abe and to Wes Farrell, newly elected District Attorney (and former member of the defense bar), to stop the chaos.As always the sense of place is great - Mr. Lescroart does know his city. The plot is just complicated enough and will keep you reading long into the night.Really great crime fiction - highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      "Damage" is a San Francisco based detective novel by John Lescroart. It features newly elected District Attorney, former defense attorney, Wes Farrell, and Abe Glitsky. Farrell doesn't even get his furniture in his office when he has to deal with a crime spree spread by the son of a rich and powerful San Francisco newspaper family who it happened were big contributors to his campaign.Farrell has his hands full trying to deal with the situation while dealing with complicated San Franciso politics.I found the political angle to be quite distracting while reading the book and never quite got into it. What kept me going though was uncertainties about who the bad guys really are and even then, did the bad guys do all the bad stuff? Maybe not?I give the book 2.5 stars out of five. I mean it is worth reading but I'm glad I got it at the library instead of downloading on the Kindle. I'm intrigued enough though that I'll be looking for more Lescroart books.
    • 4/5
      Ten years ago, Roland Curtlee was convicted of rape/murder. But now the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted him a new trial because the victim's family wore buttons during the trial bearing a picture of the victim's smiling face which clearly unfairly prejudiced the jury against the defendant.Because the judge has certain politic connections, he grants bail in a case that would otherwise have no chance of bail. Curtlee's family makes the $10 million bail because they own the San Francisco Courier, one of the major newspapers in the Bay area.As soon as Curtlee makes his bail, though, witnesses associated with his trial start dying. And their murders have the same eerie M.O. as the murders of Curtlee's earlier victims - raped with their shoes on, then killed.But there's a new District Attorney in office, who won by only 90 votes. And he was endorsed by the Courier (read: the Curtlees). But and Lieutenant Abe Glitsky are both aware that Curtlee needs to be put away before more lives are taken. But as Curtlee presents alibi after alibi, charges of police harassment, and the Courier starts getting public opinion on his side, the law enforcement agents finds that they may be fighting an unwinnable battle.As with most of Lescroart's books, this book was a page turner. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. His characters are completely realistic. As the plot unfolded, the intrigue really drew me in, and made me wonder about what was going on. And although Lescroart doesn't have a legal background, it's clear that he's done his research. Although, unlike certain other authors, he doesn't feel the need to show off and go on and on and on, boring his readers to prove that he's done the research. Every detail is necessary to forward the action.He also tempers the action of the plot with the relationships of the characters. As always, it's nice to see the relationship between Glitsky and his wife Treya, which gets tested like never before in this book. Because their relationship has always been so solid and romantic, it was actually a little scary to see them have trouble like this. To me, this is a mark of a someone who can write a good relationship.A solid read.
    • 4/5
      Wes Farrell becomes DA and has to handle convicted rapist/murder who gets released from prison on an appeal. Good amount of suspense and politics as the usual suspects, i.e. Glitsky, hardy, et al play their roles.
    • 4/5
      John Lescroart continue to mix crime, the law, and the craziness of San Francisco politics into an entertaining read. Front and center in Damage is chief of detectives, Abe Glitsky, who takes the lead in trying to put back into jail a rapist and murderer who the courts freed on appeal--not that he didn't commit the crime but that the jury was prejudiced by the victim's friends and relatives. The freed inmate is the son of a wealthy and influential newspaper owner who will use any means possible--including his paper--to keep his son from being re-tried. The son joins with the family bodyguard/houseman to become a two man crime wave killing several people associated with the first trial, threatening others--including Abe's family. Dismas Hardy plays a minor role in this book, but former law partner, Wes Farrell, has just been elected San Francisco's district attorney. There is a lot of frustration on the police department's dealing with indecisive Farrell and judges who are benefactors of the newspaper scion's generous contributions to their campaigns. Justice is served in a most unusual way at the book's end.