Mark Twain wrote: I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The Cross
by Steve Cavanagh

Series:
#0.5 in Eddie Flynn

Category:  Legal Thriller

Average Rating:  5.0

Eddie Flynn, ex con-artist-turned-defense attorney, has an impossible choice to make. His client, the widow of a man who died in a confrontation with a police officer, is seeking justice for her husband. The victim himself was accused of killing a man in a robbery gone wrong outside the St. Regis Hotel--his widow swears it's not true, and the story's not adding up to Flynn, either. But with his small and scrappy law firm on the brink of financial collapse, taking this to trial and losing could put them under for good.

As Flynn digs deeper into the case, a complex web of deceit and corruption begins to emerge with farther-reaching implications than he ever imagined. After a whirlwind twenty-four hours chasing leads all throughout New York City, it all comes down to the cross-examination: will he risk his life to expose the truth?

Jeff

[2026-01-07 21:41:41]

Rating:  5

This short novella is a good introduction to Eddie Flynn and his creative style of legal defense. The author's note at the end read by Steve Cavanagh gives some background that prompted the writing of this story. Adam Sims voices Eddie and the other characters distinctly and performs quite well. If you like courtroom drama, you'll find it in this novella and the other books in the Eddie Flynn series.