The Bordentown
Military Institute, now defunct, is embroiled in a controversy about
whether to sell the building, once the home of Napoleon’s elder
brother, to a developer. Many of the prominent men in Bordentown were
once cadets at the school. Now they want to preserve it, or is it the
extensive tunnels under the school?
Beth Swahn is an
attorney in her stepfather’s law firm. He’s an alum who wants to
preserve the old school. Beth gets the assignment to keep the sale
from going through. As the case progresses, she becomes increasingly
concerned about how far someone will go to stop the demolition and
more important, why.
This is a moderately
entertaining legal thriller. The plot is a good one with plenty of
complexity and twists. However, it is marred by uninspiring dialog
and long passages of description. Beth is a good character, but the
effect is dulled by a great deal of somewhat arcane legal procedure information that slows the story and may not be interesting to the
average reader.
If you love legal
thrillers with lots of concentration on legal procedure, you may
enjoy this book. However, for the average reader, I found it rather
slow going.
I received this book
from Net Galley for this review.
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