While author Victor Methos has taken a possible ripped-from-the-headlines case -- going up against the pharmaceutical industry in a suspected tampering incident -- he also acknowledges the risks of taking the case and making it personal.
Now, what I liked best about this novel may be something that will seem unremarkable for anyone who hasn't worked for an attorney. But when I worked for my first attorney back in the late '80s I was green about a lot of things. I knew we had volumes of templates that could be used to draft documents that could be referred to, but the attorney I worked for made a lot of things easier for me. I'd be transcribing the correspondence that would be mailed to clients or a petition of some sort that would be filed in one of our cases and he would take a moment to explain a particular term or why we would be filing this particular document instead of another that could be used. I still remember the first time he did that. The legal term was escheat -- the process of transferring property of a decedent without heirs to the state. Methos does this same thing in An Invisible Client, and does it in such a way that it doesn't feel like he's lecturing while do it.
The novel is not overly long, at about 250 pages, and is the perfect length -- no padding here, folks! -- for an afternoon or evening devoted to reading.
From the list of previous works provided in the pages before the story begins, it looks like this may be a stand-alone novel. Dare I hope that we might see more of Noah Byron and the firm of Byron, Val & Keller? Maybe a novel focusing on one of the other partners in the firm? I know I'd pick it up.
Rating: 5 Stars
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