Wrongful Death

By Fred Hodgson

Just minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful-death verdict, attorney David Sloane confronts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. Beverly Ford wants Sloane to sue the United States government and military in the mysterious death of her husband, James, a national guardsman killed in Iraq. While a decades-old military doctrine might make Ford's case impossible to win, Sloane, a former soldier himself, is compelled to find justice for the widow and her four children in what is certain to become the biggest challenge of his career.With little hard evidence to go on, Sloane calls on his friend, reclusive former CIA agent turned private investigator Charles Jenkins, to track down the other men serving with Ford the night he died. Alarmingly, two of the four who returned home alive didn't stay that way for long, and though the mission's wheelchairbound commander now works for a civilian contractor, he refuses to talk. The final -- and youngest -- soldier is also the most elusive, but he's their only shot at discovering the truth -- if Sloane and Jenkins can keep him alive long enough to tell it.Meanwhile, Sloane isn't the only one on a manhunt. As he propels his case into a federal courtroom, those seeking to hide the truth threaten Sloane's family, forcing his new wife Tina and stepson Jake into hiding, where they become the targets of a relentless killer. Now Sloane must race to uncover what really happened on that fatal mission, not only to bring justice to a family wronged but to keep himself and the people closest to him from becoming the next casualties....

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416591001
• ISBN13: 9781416591009
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nifty Tale

Here I am. It's 1:54 AM. I should have been asleep for three hours already; instead, I just finished reading "Wrongful Death". Couldn't put it down at the end. It was an enjoyable book to read, although it dealt with a soldier's death in Iraq. And a few more deaths along the way. It was a well-crafted novel that includes a likable and skilled lawyer, David Sloan, his capable friend Charles Jenkins. And throw in a strong...

As intricately woven a plot as Dugoni's Jury Master

The second in what I hope will be a long series of David Sloan novels by Robert Dugoni, this book succeeds in making the improbable believable. When Sloan sets out to sue the federal government to obtain benefits he believes belong to the family of a National Guardsman killed in the Iraq War, he must overcome a formidable barrier--the doctrine that prohibits soldiers or their families from suing the US government for injuries...

Legal thriller with a little bit of everything

I have never read Robert Dugoni before so didn't really know what to expect. I was drawn in and engaged from the very beginning. The plot itself is not mind-blowing or even surprising. What was surprising was the execution. The main character Sloane is believable and human, the supporting characters Jenkins and Alex are what muscle should be, tough but also central to the theme of the book. In particular when I say...

Military Legal Thriller

"Wrongful Death" is a terrific legal thriller that far surpasses Dugoni's previous efforts. The timeliness of the novel, which centers on the efforts of a family trying to uncover the truth about the death of their father in Iraq, helps make this an emotional story as well as an exciting one. The taut pacing of the story is punctuated by brief and extremely tense segments revealing the action in Iraq that led to the demise...

Fast-paced legal thriller; may want to start with the first in the series

"Wrongful Death" is a fast-paced legal thriller with a large side helping of military-conspiracy. It wasn't my favorite legal thriller (my favorite genre of mystery) but I enjoyed it very much. The book started out a little slow & disjointed for me but I soon got into the flow of it. So keep going even if you don't love it for the first 20 pages or so. After I finished the book, I realized this is the second David Sloane...