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Trader of Secrets: A Paul Madriani Novel
Trader of Secrets: A Paul Madriani Novel
Trader of Secrets: A Paul Madriani Novel
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Trader of Secrets: A Paul Madriani Novel

Written by Steve Martini

Narrated by Dan Woren

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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“Steve Martini ranks among the top authors of legal thrillers.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“You like Law & Order? Or even a John Grisham novel? Well, Steve Martini is one of the best of the best when it comes to crime thrillers.”
Asbury Park Press

The reasons why Steve Martini is one of the most popular thriller writers around are abundantly clear in Trader of Secrets: an ingenious plot, great characters, gripping storytelling that combines the legal expertise of John Lescroart, Brad Meltzer, and Scott Turow with the heart-pounding political intrigue of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor. Superstar crime novelist Linda Fairstein says, “Take it from a prosecutor—Steve Martini has created one of the most charismatic defense attorneys in thriller fiction,” referring to Martini’s fearless yet very human series protagonist, defense attorney Paul Madriani. In Trader of Secrets the crusading lawyer is on the trail of dangerous criminals who are trying to steal state-of-the-art weapons technology…with nothing less than the future of America at stake.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperAudio
Release dateMay 31, 2011
ISBN9780062072573
Author

Steve Martini

Steve Martini is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including The Enemy Inside, Trader of Secrets, The Rule of Nine, Guardian of Lies, Shadow of Power, Double Tap, and others featuring defense attorney Paul Madriani. Martini has practiced law in California in both state and federal courts and has served as an administrative law judge and supervising hearing officer. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Trader of Secrets is an okay read, but it reminded me of a Grisham novel?minus a Mitch McDeere or Danilo Silva. The plot is moderately-paced, and the characters are not unlike any I've been introduced to before in legal thrillers.

    Where the genre is concerned, Martini is a novelist very good at his craft. But this one, in my own personal opinion, is not one of his most sturdy efforts.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I am not so narrow that I don't think writers can cross all sorts of genre barriers. This one didn't work for me. I sort of liked Martini's legal thrillers. And I mean sort of in the I-don't-have-anything-appealing-to-read-so-this'll-do way.

    There are hundreds of reviews out there that explain just what's wrong with this story, with lawyers as spy novel protagonists, etc. I'll leave that to them.

    All I have to say is that from the start I was rooting for the bad guy - and that's not a good thing.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I've been reading and enjoying Marini's books for years. This series moves away from what I consider his expertise - it is not a legal thriller. He does know how to create a bad guy. There were times where I really felt actions/situations were too far beyond realty. Although I prefer his legal thrillers, this book was enjoyable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An easy read and although I didn't read the first two in the series it was easy enough to pick up the plot -- although you were dumped into the action rather abruptly. The idea though that two average Joe's would go chasing around the world in pursuit of a professional killer was rather ludicrous.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of his best books! Could not wait to finish
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This is book three of a trilogy involving attorney Paul Madriani and the man who is out to kill him, a Mexican contract killer named Liquida. (I did not read the first two, which is actually pretty much a given, because I never would have followed up on the series!) Much of the plot of this suspense/thriller has Liquida chasing Paul and everyone else he can identify in Paul’s life: his law firm partner, his girlfriend, his investigator, his daughter, and his daughter's dog - while at the same time trying to do a “regular” contract killing of two NASA employees who defected to an Evil Oil-Producing Country in the Middle East.You may be asking, why, why, why did I read this? Well, here is the quick answer: it was in my TBR pile, and I was looking for something mindless after having been devastated by reading the award-winning book about the Vietnam War, The Things They Carried.Unfortunately, “mindless,” in this case, would best describe the writer rather than the reader. The book is overloaded with characters, most of whom are either stupid or venal (or sometimes both). Madriani and his groupies hop on planes and fly from locale to locale around the world as if 9/11 never happened and money were no object. (Their goal? To learn what the NASA secrets are, and then get Liquida before he gets them! Um, right.) Sarah, Madriani’s clueless daughter, always insists on going along, and moreover, on taking her dog with her - and the others let her! And the secret weapons system subcontracted out from NASA that they’re all chasing? Even without considering the utter lack of feasibility of such a weapon, think about Congress actually agreeing on the huge amount of funding necessary for non-contract government agencies to develop a pie-in-the-sky weapon system that violates a bunch of international treaties and has no oversight whatsoever. Now there are improbable stories out there that are STILL GOOD. Take the movie "Independence Day." AS IF the President is going to take his toddler down to an air-purified laboratory to see the aliens of Area 51. And then there’s Bill Pullman’s impromptu knockout speech (without either speechwriter or notes) right before he takes off in a fighter jet which he probably hasn’t flown in twenty years, to LEAD the other jets in the crusade against the aliens. One could go on and on. AND YET, who doesn’t LOVE that movie? I cry buckets every time I watch it, which is probably at least every year on July 4.But THIS book? Skip the book, and rent "Independence Day."