The Defence

  • Author Steve Cavanagh
  • Narrator Adam Sims
  • Publisher Headline
  • Run Time 10 hours and 42 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Crime and mystery fiction.
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What to expect

The truth has no place in a courtroom. The truth doesn't matter in a trial.
The only thing that matters is what the prosecution can prove.

Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turned out the two weren't that different.

It's been over a year since Eddie vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, has strapped a bomb to Eddie's back and kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter Amy.

Eddie only has 48 hours to defend Volchek in an impossible murder trial - and win - if wants to save his daughter.

Under the scrutiny of the media and the FBI, Eddie must use his razor-sharp wit and every con-artist trick in the book to defend his 'client' and ensure Amy's safety. With the timer on his back ticking away, can Eddie convince the jury of the impossible?

Lose this case and he loses everything.

(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group

Critics Review

  • THE DEFENCE is everything a great thriller should be and I can’t wait to see more of Eddie Flynn

    Mark Billingham
  • Part classic courtroom drama in the John Grisham tradition and part Bruce Willis-like action hero fiction straight out of the Die Hard franchise, this is a rip-roaring action-packed and highly entertaining debut

    IRISH INDEPENDENT
  • [It] reads a lot like a courtroom drama that Lee Child might write about Jack Reacher’s younger, hotter-headed brother . . . This is afoot-to-the-floor thriller that pulls out with tyres smoking and takes no prisoners until it judders to a halt 400 pages later

    IRISH TIMES
  • ‘Puts the “thrill” back in “legal thriller”. Non-stop action, unexpected and totally cool plot twists, a sympathetic genius of a con-man/attorney, and a clock that never ever ever stops ticking — this isn’t narrative drive, it’s rocket-like narrative propulsion! Hop aboard and enjoy the ride!’

    John Lescroart, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author
  • ‘Imagine THE VERDICT’s Frank Galvin crossed with THE FIRM’s Mitch McDeere and you’d get something like Eddie Flynn, the quick thinking, troubled, kinetic lead of Steve Cavanagh’s debut thriller . . . A deliriously fast and enjoyable ride from the next big Irish crime fiction star. Highly recommended’

    Adrian McKinty, author of the Sean Duffy series
  • Get ready for a legal thriller that’ll grab you by the throat . . . Eddie Flynn makes his explosive debut

    Gerard Brennan

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