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I thoroughly enjoyed this book about a new lawyer working as a messenger at the Supreme Court, until a mugging happens to a Chief Justice, to which this young man,Grayson Hernandez, responds. This starts a friendship with the Justice that gets him in as a law clerk with new suits and a place to stay. Interesting...At the same time strange murders are happening on the fifth of every month,which date coincides with the attempted mugging. The FBI are trying to figure out what is going on, while Gra...
An interesting take on a Supreme Court based thriller. Well written, with plenty of action, and strong character development. Highly recommend.
This legal thriller was intellectually stimulating, well-paced, and sufficiently suspenseful to keep me riveted.There are a number of underlying themes. One is a series of unsolved, ongoing murders that seem tangentially related to the Supreme Court. A second is the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, to which there are a number of references. The main character in this book, Grayson “Gray” Hernandez, evokes one of the protagonists of The Outsiders. And on a meta level, there is also the theme of...
Anthony Franze didn’t disappoint me with his third novel THE OUTSIDER. From the first page he captured my attention and held it to the last sentence in the book.I resonated with the protagonist Grayson Hernandez, who is not only an outsider but from humble beginnings. Franze did a wonderful job of capturing Grayson trying to chase his dreams, fit into a world he thinks he wants, and showing the obstacles he has to face to achieve them.The story is full of suspense, mystery, and quite a few twist...
Great fast paced thriller book. It's the type of book that once you get started you can't put down.
Yet another powerful legal thriller by Anthony Franze that left me rushing to review it. This novel pulls readers into a story that centres around the U.S. Supreme Court in all its glory. After graduating from a fourth-tier law school and saddled with enormous debts, Grayson 'Gray' Hernandez was lucky enough to secure a job as a Messenger within the U.S. Supreme Court. While he has always aspired to argue before the nine Justices, he finds pleasure in being able to surround himself with the hist...
Legal thriller about a guy who went to a low level law school, and through a fluke becomes law clerk for a Supreme Court justice. There are some mysterious murders going on connected to the building, and the law clerk investigates.I felt like the book wimps out a bit, not making the hard choice, instead going for the easy out ending.
In The Outsider, author Anthony Franze utilizes his legal knowledge and position as a Washington D.C. attorney with Appellate and Supreme Court experience, to weave a riveting legal thriller that takes the reader behind the scenes into the inner workings of the United States Supreme Court. From its gritty dark beginning to climatic ending, The Outsider is an action packed and fast paced gripping tale that follows Supreme Court messenger turned law clerk Grayson Hernandez as he tries to help the
This is my first taste of what Mr. Franze offers as an writer. I have to say that I liked what I read. This is an impressive read and Mr. Franze has a new fan in me. Instantly, I was hooked from the first page until the very last page. What do you get when you mix it with a strong storyline, engaging characters, high stakes, and twists you get the end result that is the Outsider! This book is a top contender for best book for 2017.Gray may have been set up as the perfect patsy but he was not goi...
It was good but I did figure out who it was about halfway through. There were enough twists and turns to keep me engaged with the audiobook.
I really liked this well crafted legal thriller. The characters were engaging, the plot was captivating, and the action suspenseful.The novel centers around Grayson, a young lawyer who, through a quirky experience, saved the life of the Chief Justice. In thanks, the justice has Grayson come on staff as a clerk. He is an outsider, not having gone to a prestigious law school. The attempt on the justice may have been the act of a serial killer and Grayson is asked to work with the FBI. They want hi...
Ever since he was a little boy growing up in the inner city of DC to working class parents, Grayson Hernandez had always dreamed of arguing before the Supreme Court. But after graduating from a fourth-tier law school and passing the bar exam, he found his job prospects to be few and far between. So, Grayson settled for working inside the Supreme Court . . . as a messenger. Fate, however, seemed to have other plans for Grayson. When, one night after work, Grayson happened upon the Chief Supreme C...
I give this 4.5/5 envelopes.It has been quite a while since I last read a legal thriller. I enjoy the works of John Grisham, Scott Turrow and Grif Stockley. This is my first time to read a work of Anthony Franze. So far, it has been very engrossing just like the works of the three authors I have mentioned. Franze is a lawyer himself, so it's just obvious and to be expected that his expertise and experiences as a lawyer are very imminent in his writing. The plot is intricately planned and laid ou...
Grayson Hernadez has come a long way but not as far as he dreams of. Born in a poor neighborhood, he has fought his way out and become a lawyer. Not an Ivy League lawyer, but a graduate of a city university with no prestige. Instead of job offers at big-name law firms, the best job he could find was as a messenger in the Supreme Court. Gray is thrilled to be there as he always idolized everything about the Court, but it hurts to be in a menial position while others his same age are chosen to wor...
My first Anthony Franze book, and I’m very impressed. He’s definitely an inside-the-Beltway guy, who seems to know DC environs very well. I really appreciated his appendix with all his sources. I will take him up on his insistence that every citizen visit the Supreme Court when in Washington DC.
A perfectly OK book that I predict I won't remember in three weeks. For much of the book, I could have sworn I had already read it or seen a movie version. Turns out no -- it's just super predictable and full of mystery novel clichés. Great for the beach or any other time you don't want to have to think too much.NOTE: After completing this review, I read others and found I'm in the vast minority. Most readers found this book to be all kinds of riveting. Hmmmm. Go figure.
Look out, Grisham and Turow. There’s a new master of legal thrills in town!Grayson Hernandez, Gray, a recent graduate of law school––an outsider of Hispanic heritage from the rough side of DC and resented by his Ivy League peers––is offered his dream job as a Supreme Court law clerk after saving the life of a Chief Justice. Just as Gray settles into his new life, the FBI come knocking. They believe there's a serial killer connected with the Supreme Court, and they want Gray to be their inside ma...
Okay, I'm on vacation, so I read this book really quickly. Also, I'm a bit of a Supreme Court junkie. Sitting in on a session at the Supreme Court was the highlight of my fall trip to DC. This is a legal thriller in only a small part: Lawyers are involved, the crimes wouldn't have happened if an original criminal hadn't gotten away on a technicality, and you learn about SC clerks.Really this is a serial killer thriller/mystery. The killer leaves clues for whoever is looking -- and the fact that
3.75 star This is your classic Whodunnit novel. Franze doesn't reinvent the wheel here but he does a good job at keeping the reader on edge. Although there are a few clichés and the novel stays comfortably in the "Mystery-Crime-Legal thriller" box, I did enjoy that novel.It's also, like its predecessor, the kind of legal thriller that isn't, thanks to John Grisham who leads a pack of talented legal thriller writers who now only give their protagonists a job as a lawyer. End of the legal part of