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You must be mistaking me for someone who cares,’ said Tony menacingly, one eyebrow raised. ‘You’ll have my full attention when – one – it pays, and – two – you’ve won. Now get out there and get schmoozing!’ The book takes you through the life of a baby barrister, and all the hard work, long nights and sometimes personal feelings, that goes into fighting for tenancy during pupillage. As well as balancing home life with networking events, trials after trials and everything in between, the grittiness and honesty are clearly shown through the eyes of an author who has been through it all before himself. This is a book that takes you to the dark heart of the criminal justice system. They are all here - the good, the bad, the innocent and the guilty. I have not enjoyed a legal thriller this much since Grisham's The Firm' Tony Parsons
An engrossing read by someone who clearly knows their subject matter well. I didn't see the ending coming!' Faith Martin I'm not a huge fan of "celebrity" books, but I do like Rob Rinder on TV and am partial to a legal thriller, especially written by someone who was a Criminal Barrister in his previous occupation. An engrossing read by someone who clearly knows their subject matter well. I didn't see the ending coming!" - Faith Martin Green!’ The unmistakable reedy tones of Jonathan Taylor-Cameron, Adam’s pupil master, were drifting imperiously over from the other side of the room. Well, I’d advise him to get someone other than me to apply for his bail,’ said Adam, chinking his bottle with Rupert’s. ‘I’ve had another stinker today.’
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Most of my experience in this genre has been everything America. So, to read a legal fiction that is based in England is so refreshing.
If only he could think of something clever to say. The person he actually wanted to talk to, Bobby Thompson KC, was standing a little removed from the crowd, sipping a glass of water with a haughty expression on his face. Adam had almost forgotten. Jonathan had rung frantically first thing that morning insisting there was an ‘emergency’ and he needed Adam to send flowers to his mistress, Allegra, as a matter of urgency. A few months ago, Rinder was touted as a potential Conservative London mayor. Is he going to stand? “I think it’s highly unlikely, don’t you?” he laughs. Is he a Conservative? “I’m not a member of a political party,” he says, not answering the question. He likes to remain impartial, not least because he is an occasional presenter on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, but also, I suspect, because he is so conditioned to sifting the evidence before making a decision that he can’t be a political tribalist.
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I absolutely loved this book. It showed great insight into the court processes, was full of extremely well crafted and believable characters, full of twists and turns, and I didn't want it to end. I really hope Rob Rinder writes a sequel and it isn't the last we have heard of Adam Green. This is a book that takes you to the dark heart of the criminal justice system. They are all here - the good, the bad, the innocent and the guilty. I have not enjoyed a legal thriller this much since Grisham's The Firm." - Tony Parsons Becoming a barrister suited Rinder’s relatively late-discovered love of learning, the debating skills he nurtured at university and a genuine desire for advocacy. “There’s something enormously powerful about standing between the individual [accused of a crime] and the power of the state. There’s a moment – it happens to all young barristers – where you realise that what you’re doing has the most profound value to uphold democracy under the rule of law. It sounds sanctimonious, or about your own importance. It’s not quite like that.” It’s not about him specifically, he says, more what it means for us all. Obviously Rinder knows the judicial system well and this shone through in the writing. The nature of justice and whether our legal system is always successful in attaining it, is a major part of the plot and this certainly made me think. The ending was great, very clever and certainly worthy of such a cleverly plotted book.
I was really looking forward to reading this book I have always liked Rob Rinder in his various tv appearances and was curious to know if his talent would shine through in his writing and oh boy did it just, I loved the book ! But he is perhaps best-known for his long-running daytime TV show Judge Rinder, which developed from his proper career as a barrister. Now, in a bid to show the fiction-reading public the inner workings of the courts of law, Rinder has written the first of two novels featuring a lightly Jewish barrister, Adam Green, as his alter ego. I say “lightly Jewish”, because in general, the characters would have worked even if Rinder had set the whole Jewish bit aside. There is, however, a series of comedy phone calls throughout the book, in which Green’s Awful Jewish Mother attempts to inflict various awful-sounding Jewish women on her son. Such conversations seemed to resonate with tropes rooted in the community of the 1950s or 1960s. Oh Adam, I don’t actually want to hear about it!’ Georgina cut in, with a laugh like tinkling glass. ‘I just wanted to let you know that I’d already told Tony you’d be late. He wasn’t very pleased, I can tell you…’ Rob Rinder, a criminal barrister and star of the courtroom series Judge Rinder and now a novelist! Is there no end to his talent??!! A ridiculously entertaining whodunit. The Trial is sharp, witty and has a huge amount of heart. You're all going to love it when it hits shelves in June." - Tom HindleGood, good,’ said Jonathan. ‘Did you add the bit about how I miss her milky thighs, or did we decide that was a bit much?’ It was already gone five, his bail application having been the last hearing of a typically busy day at the mags. Adam was exhausted and thought longingly of the IKEA bed at his grotty bedsit on Holloway Road. But that wasn’t an option, because the party – or networking event – organised at chambers by the chief clerk, Tony Jones, was a three-line whip. And at this rate, Adam was going to be late.
No, no, no, I don’t mean that,’ Jonathan said, waving away Adam’s words like a bad smell. ‘I mean, how did you get on with the flowers?’As well as this we had the faux "comedy" of the stereotypical Jewish mother, feeding, cleaning and trying to find her son a nice Jewish girl. Rinder, who specialised in international fraud but also took on wider cases – he represented British soldiers charged with manslaughter after the deaths of Iraqi detainees – would often be “the de facto decision-maker on an extremely important decision. Would there be moments where I’d be in that room thinking: ‘What are you asking me for?’ Of course.”