By Robert Dugoni
Warner Books
Hardcover, Paperback and Large Print Editions

David Sloane, the attorney who can “grab a jury and make it dance,” finds himself at the center of a whirlwind that shatters lives across the country. Joe Branick, a personal advisor and college roommate of the President of the United States apparently kills himself. However, Branick placed a call to Sloane hours before his body is found near a deserted trail of a National Park.

The Jury Master Excerpt The cry echoed off the granite walls like ghosts wailing. Sloane struggled to sit up, the sleeping bag cocooned tightly around him. He freed a hand from the twisted fabric, swept the ground for the rubberized handle, and unsheathed the serrated steel blade as he kicked free of the bag and jumped to his feet, crouching, eyes wide. His pulse rushed in his ears. His chest heaved for each breath. ©2006 Robert Dugoni Published with permission from Warner Books

The news describes a single gunshot wound to the head as self-inflicted on the same day Sloane’s apartment is ransacked. Sloane becomes the target of assassins bent on keeping a secret so devastating it could take down the President himself.

The bodies start piling up while Sloane’s personal demons, in the form of debilitating migraine-type nightmares from his past, keep haunting him as he tries to expose the mastermind behind the plot. There’s one thing David Sloane can’t possibly envision that this runaway conspiracy is all about him—and only he can stop it.

The Jury Master is a real page-turner. Dugoni uses his knowledge as a former civil litigator to breathe life into his main character, David Sloane.

Bookworm's Briefing
Author Robert Dugoni is masterful at getting the action rolling but just at the pinnacle, he ends the chapter, leaving the reader hanging while he switches characters and scenes, making it hard to keep up with the cast of characters who keep entering stage left. However, his use of metaphors and descriptive adjectives is unsurpassed as he paints a visual picture of Washington, DC with “cold wind funneling through a canyon of high-rise buildings,” or the Virginia countryside with its “tall, slender trees standing like attentive soldiers.” The action is fast-paced and the believable characters transcend the sometimes not-so-credible plot.