Sara Tate is a prosecuting attorney with the Manhattan DA's office; her husband, Jared Lynch, a rising star in a Wall Street Law firm. They have a wonderful, happy, high-spirited, non-competitive marriage - until they accidentally find themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom, and their relationship starts to fall apart.

Worse, they are threatened by interested parties on each side of the case. The result is obvious: one of them will lose. The other one will die.

Bestselling author Brad Meltzer's second novel took the contemporary legal thriller to its next stage.

About the Author
Brad Meltzer is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Fate, and five other bestselling thrillers: The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires and The Zero Game. He is also one of the co-creators of the American TV show, Jack & Bobby, and is the writer of the #1 selling graphic novels, Identity Crisis and Justice League of America. He is also the host of Brad Meltzer's Decoded for the History Channel, the second season of which airs in October 2011. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School, he currently lives in Florida. Visit Brad's website, www.bradmeltzer.com; find him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BradMeltzer; or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/bradmeltzer.

Reviews
Watch out John Grisham - there's a young pretender out there. The excellent thriller DEAD EVEN . . . has more double crosses and ruthless villains than an episode of Dallas. Great * Prima *

'Just when you thought there were no more changes to be rung on the legal thriller, Meltzer follows up his bestselling inside look at the Supreme Court (The Tenth Justice) with this sleek, suspenseful, only slightly unbelievable story about two young New York lawyers in love and danger. . . . Definitely compelling tale of legal and extralegal adventure'
Publishers Weekly

'A very aptly titled gripper that will have Grisham slapping his wife's wrist in pique over the breakfast toast when he discovers Melzter's plot for his second novel . . . Author Meltzer is an attorney himself, which lends the novel's dialogue a sparkling undercurrent of real-life chitchat, not to mention the mutual sabre-sharpening that readers will quickly pick up on and enjoy as a bonus'
Kirkus Reviews

Breakneck . . . an action-packed read * Frances Fyfield in Mail on Sunday *

"Races along...deftly written...haunting...Meltzer is so good."
- Entertainment Weekly

A gem of a plot...so strong...breezes along in 'high gear'. Highly
recommended."
- Chicago Tribune

Terrific...Reads like a Tracy-Hepburn movie directed by Sam
Peckinpah...complete with cliffhangers at the end of every chapter."
- Newsday

"Rachets up the tension."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"A truly scary ending."
- Newsday

"As he demonstrated in his first novel, The Tenth Justice...Meltzer has a
gift for revealing the heart-stopping intensity of legal systems under
extreme pressure."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"Meltzer does it again with...a different twist...The book is well-crafted
and will hold your interest -- just like John Grisham's books, but with a
Yankee twang."
- Chattanooga Free Press

"Meltzer comes back with an even stronger effort that should catch the eye
of every John Grisham devotee."
- Chicago Tribune

"Sleek, suspenseful...definitely compelling."
-Publishers Weekly

"Deftly written dialogue and characters."
-Entertainment Weekly

"A page-turner."
-The Oakland Press

'An absolute page-turner . . . [A] shocking Catch-22 situation'
News-Herald (Detroit)

'Gets the blood pumping'
The New York Times

'Breakneck . . . an action-packed read'
Mail on Sunday

'A great story with good writing and lashings of black comedy'
Peterborough Evening Telegraph

'Meltzer has really come into his own as a formidable force in the legal thriller genre . . . A rocking good read that will keep you ripping through the pages until the very last' - ? Magazine, Dublin
'Sparky, sexy, and above all, a new template for a document entitled "pageturner" ' - The List
'Watch out John Grisham - there's a young pretender out there. The excellent thriller DEAD EVEN . . . has more double crosses and ruthless villains than an episode of Dallas. Great' - Prima



Book Information
ISBN 9780340658178
Author Brad Meltzer
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint Coronet Books
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Weight(grams) 272g
Dimensions(mm) 177mm * 110mm * 32mm