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The Jury Master

Written by Robert Dugoni

Narrated by Robertson Dean

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"Thriller of the first order, delivered in high-octane prose. Robert Dugoni is a bona fide new talent." -John Lescroart

In a courtroom, David Sloane can grab a jury and make it dance. He can read jurors' expressions, feel their emotions, know their thoughts. With this remarkable ability, Sloane gets juries to believe the unbelievable, excuse the inexcusable, and return the most astonishing verdicts. The only barrier to Sloane's professional success is his conscience-until he gets a call from a man later found dead, and his life rockets out of control.

The call is from Joe Branick, special assistant and personal friend of the President of the United States, made just hours before Branick swallows his own gun. In a single moment, the death of a man Sloane has never met propels the jury master out of his successful life and into a whirlwind that is shattering lives from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

To get back his life, Sloane needs to know more. About Branick. About others who are in as much danger as he is. And about the president and his men. But in the face of a secret that spans decades and governments, and puts millions of dollars at risk, there's one thing David Sloane can't possibly envision: that this runaway conspiracy is all about him-and only he can stop it.

A whole new kind of thriller from a remarkable new writer, THE JURY MASTER hurtles through one hairpin turn into another. As a brilliant attorney fights for his life, he gets closer and closer to an explosive truth: about who he is, how little he knows, and who is the master of his fate….
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Release dateMar 14, 2006
ISBN9781415929759
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The Jury Master
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Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series, which has sold more than seven million books worldwide; the David Sloane series; the Charles Jenkins series; the stand-alone novels The 7th Canon, Damage Control, The World Played Chess, and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, for which he won an AudioFile Earphones Award for narration; and the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post best book of the year. He is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction and has twice won the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel. He is a two-time finalist for the International Thriller Awards and a finalist for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards. His books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Visit his website at www.robertdugonibooks.com.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This had lots of action and mystery.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Attorney David Sloan has won fourteen cases in a row. He has a special way of speaking to juries that makes them pay more attention than usual. But don't expect this to be a legal thriller or set in a courtroom beyond the first few pages. David suffers from migraines and terrible night terrors, but can't seem to remember if they ever happened or if they are truly nightmares or actual events. He seems to share the same nightmare with former CIA agent, Charles Jenkins, who seems familiar but whom David can't remember meeting. The reader is then switched to West Virginia where a cop is missing, but a long time adviser to the president has committed suicide. The man, Joe Branick, also seems familiar to David even though he doesn't believe they've ever met. The novel alternates chapters to show the reader how the various characters are connected.

    This was an interesting book and once I got over the surprise of it not being a courtroom thriller I found it to be an interesting and somewhat different political thriller. At some point the explanation of the oil business became too much for me and I skimmed those portions, hoping I wouldn't miss an important part of the story. The characters certainly need more development but this is just the first book of the series and I understand it gets better further along. It gives the reader some history behind the jury master, David Sloane, and is probably going to make him much more compelling in later books. I look forward to reading the next book in the series, Wrongful-Death.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I am a big fan of Robert Dugoni's more recent Tracy Crosswhite series, so I decided to go back and start reading the David Sloane series, about a lawyer with some special powers that let him sense things and influence others. This is the first in the series -- and sort of the origin story, literally -- of who David Sloane is. It involves much political intrigue, wit the CIA and White House involved. Solid, and will read the next in the series, but at times a bit over the top.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    The title to this was a stretch. Not a legal/courtroom drama. More the story of an attorney who finds myself in the middle of covert op involving the president and the CIA. It was interesting but not what I've come to love and expect from Dugoni...which is why I never read the back of the book, which may have been more clear. Not sure if I'll continue with the series, which I'm guessing from here would get back into the standard courtroom drama.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was the first novel that I've read by Robert Dugoni and I can't wait to add more titles to my "wish-to-read" list from the author's website! It's a page turner of a storyline but I also really enjoyed Robert Dugoni's style of writing which draws the reader in and creates each scene in the moment effortlessly and allows each word used to succinctly paint the vivid setting to tell his tale.

    An example from Chapter 3-
    "The cry echoed off the granite walls like ghosts wailing. Sloane struggled to sit up, the sleeping bag cocooned tightly around him. He freed a hand from the twisted fabric, swept the ground for the rubberized handle, and unsheathed the serrated steel blade as he kicked free of the bag and jumped to his feet, crouching, eyes wide. His pulse rushed in his ears. His chest heaved for each breath.

    The echo faded, retreating across the Sierras, leaving the sound of the mountains at night-crickets chirping, a symphony of insects, and the hushed din of a distant waterfall. A chill washed over him, bringing a trail of goose bumps and a numbing, hard reality.

    He was alone. The echoing cry was his own."
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Jury Master was the first book I've read from Robert Dugoni and I have to say it was pretty good. I enjoyed listening to it and the reader did a very good job as well. There was one thing that threw me off though. The title suggests that this book is going to be a courtroom drama or at least about lawyers being lawyers. This is not the case.The book starts out with us meeting David Sloan just before he makes his closing arguments on a wrongful death case. The man and company he is defending, if justice would be served, should be found guilty. Sloan in his closing statement was able to change the mind of the Jury. Shortly after this things start to get weird in his life, his home is broken into and trashed his mailbox has been tampered with, he has a phone message to call back a man who is a friend and confidant of the president of the US and a victim of 'suicide'. Then things get worse. He flies to Washington D.C. hoping to find out more about this man who has so completely upset his life and what he is in the middle of. What he learns is rather shocking.The book has a good even pace and was a worth while time sink. It kept you wondering what was coming next. A trick the author used successfully, and was a way to raise suspense, was to change focus to another person right at the climax of a scene. Irritating but effective. I plan to try another book from this author sometime in the future.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    David Sloane is a skillful lawyer, who always seems to be able to convince the jury to see things his way. His life as a lawyer is interrupted when he gets a mysterious message and package from Washington. It seems to have something to do with a former advisor to the president who has recently turned up dead. David embarks on a quest to find out what is going on and why people are trying to kill him, and along the way discovers that the nightmares of his childhood could really be memories of an ugly truth.A good solid suspense novel, everything seemed to flow pretty well. I liked the character of the rumpled police detective who helps David out. It seems like a good first effort, but doesn't stand out as outstanding.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I have been in a major reading slump. Couldn't find anything compelling and not really interested in reading for months… until I picked this up. Wow. David Sloane is a highly successful defense attorney. And then one day he gets a call from the Special Assistant to the President of the United States. But, he wasn't in. The guy left a message. And then went to a park in Washington, D.C. and shot himself in the head. The first time David Sloane ever heard of this guy was when he read about his suicide. The second time was when he picked up his phone messages. This is a really fast paced, beautifully crafted, artfully told tale.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    There's not a bit lf lawyering or courtroom in this book! The title doesn't connect with the theme, plot or characters. The word "Jury" does not appear in the book after the title. I was expecting a legal thriller and I feel deceived. Our hero leaves his law firm for vacation and ends up in confrontation with POTUS over a decades old foreign affairs issue. There are many characters and keeping them straight was a challenge. Then, discovering the David Sloan SERIES after the book was completed....new experience. The Jury Master was my second series after Tracy Crosswhite from Robert Dugoni and I have to say it was pretty good. I enjoyed the book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    [The Jury Master] by Robert DugoniDavid Sloan series Book#14&#9733'sFrom The Book:David Sloane is the best wrongful death attorney in San Francisco. But despite his professional success, he's plagued by a nightmare of a childhood he cannot consciously remember. When he receives a package from a White House confidant who then turns up dead, the contents reveal a history he could never have imagined.My Thoughts:I love Robert Dugoni's flowing, easy to read writing style and the way he makes the reader feel that they are right in the midst of the story. Although the title makes you think it's a legal thriller...it actually has more of a political trend. David Sloan is a brilliant defense attorney...never lost a case. He's also an ex-Marine whose past has come back to haunt him and seemingly everyone he loves and is acquainted with...when he is mailed a document by a long ago friend and fellow soldier who just happens to be the Presidents best friend who has just committed suicide. Someone will stop at nothing to retrieve this package and the bodies begin to pile up. I am not being a huge fan of political thrillers, but I definitely became involved with the characters, caught up in the suspense and loved the twist at the end. This is Robert Dugoni’s first novel and it wasn’t perfect, by any means, but it was exciting and compelling. I shall definitely hunt down his next book in this series.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'm so happy to have discovered Robert Dugoni. That's how I put it ("discovered") when I read a book by an author I was unfamiliar with and do not expect to love it but do. That's what happened when I read Dugoni's latest (then) in his David Sloane series. I was so happy to learn that was a series and there were more. So I read another and, now, another. This one, THE JURY MASTER, is, I believe, the first in the series. And I love it, too, all but the end, that is.Sloane is a man with with no family, brought up in a series of foster homes. He is now a successful lawyer who has an extraordinary ability to convince a jury to find in his client's favor, even when evidence points to his client's guilt. But with the death of a man, a stranger, who called Sloane and mailed a mysterious package to him, he decides he must learn what the man wanted and "find himself," figure out the meaning of a persistent dream.That "dream" part sounds corny, I know, but it honestly isn't. In Dugoni's hands, Sloane's dream along with his experiences and all the criminal politics at the presidential level are believable. Until Chapter 86, Dugoni really had me, he grabbed me and didn't let go. But Chapter 86 needs a rewrite.If I told you about Chapter 86, I'd spoil Chapters 1 through 85 for you. And they're so good, I won't do that. Don't skip to Chapter 86 to see what I call corny to the nth degree. Read and enjoy the 85 chapters, and believe me that Sloane is not corny in later books. He's not a saint, but you'll love him.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    David Sloane is an extremely successful San Francisco trial lawyer with a dark past. He specializes in defending companies against wrongful death cases. His world unravels, however, after he receives a mysterious package from one of the president’s closest advisors -- a man who has apparently just committed suicide in a West Virginia national park. Soon, a pair of hitmen are after him. After barely surviving one attack -- an attack that leaves an elderly woman dead -- Sloane manages to elude another attack at UCSF Medical Center. In order to figure out what is happening to him, Sloane travels to Washington, DC, eventually teaming up with a West Virginia police detective (who had been told not to investigate the "suicide") and a former CIA agent who had once been the dead man's partner. The mystery involves a covert CIA operation thirty years earlier and leads Sloane all the way to the Oval Office.