Review of One, Two And Even (Paperback)

His office assistant Mabel is on LAPD cop turned lawyer Jimmy O'Brien's case for accepting only pro bono clients like Henry "Buck" Simpson who is obviously going back to prison.That is until the sheriff's department informs Jimmy that he hung himself in his holding cell.Jimmy rejects suicide as the career criminal was upbeat and even looking forward to playing in a prison baseball game.He asks a favor of his pal Sol Silverman of Silverman Investigations who learns that Buck was stabbed three times.

Jimmy keeps digging into Buck's death while his associate Rita works a seemingly open and shut bank robbery case.That is until Laura calls Jimmy pleading for him to put on his halo as he did nine months ago.He rushes to her home in Beverly Hills, a long way from Van Nuys, to find her husband of six months Arnie Rosenthal, the meat packing king, dead with an apparent suicide note nearby.Detectives Corshank and Barnes find discrepancies that lead them to conclude homicide occurred and that the wife and her lover Jimmy did the deed.Though he has a paying client on the one hand for a change, Jimmy also realizes he must prove his innocence.

ONE, TWO, & EVEN is an entertaining legal thriller especially when Jimmy quotes precedence in courtrooms and challenges Corshank with rights.The exciting story line is also supported by a solid investigative subplot and a terrific secondary cast, but clearly this is Jimmy's tale.Fans will enjoy this fun novel and seek the previous O'Brien story, SIX TO FIVE AGAINST.

Harriet Klausner


Product Description
It is October, 1972. In the second exciting and fast-paced Jimmy O'Brien series, One, Two & Even, Jimmy finds himself defending a beautiful ex-hooker accused of murdering her rich meat packer husband, Arnie Rosenthal, the Los Angeles hot dog king. The murder was staged to look like a suicide. Of course, it wasn't. But was it a coincidence that O'Brien's other client, a penniless mugger, whose murder, while locked up in the L.A. County jail, was also reported as a suicide? O'Brien didn't think so, and now the Mexican Mafia was out to stop his investigation, stop it dead.

From the Publisher
In the nostalgic 70s when Watergate was just a building in D.C., Nixon was in office, and the war in Viet Nam was melting down, Jimmy O'Brien passed the bar and set up a small law office in the sleepy suburb of Los Angeles, Downey. His specialty, criminal law.

One, Two & Even takes the reader on a wild ride, traveling from the luxury of Bel Air and the stunning gold coast opulence of Newport Beach to the turbulent barrio of East Los Angeles, the meat packing district of Vernon, and even to an Island paradise twenty-six miles offshore, without taking a breather or pit stop along the way. You'll enjoy the ride.

Exciting, humorous, and fast paced, One, Two & Even is a fun read that will leaving you asking for more.

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