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    Dead Peasants: A Thriller

    By Larry D. Thompson

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    "Just terrific… As real as a heart attack, and every bit as suspenseful."

    --John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of A Plague of Secrets, on The Trial

    Veteran trial lawyer Larry D. Thompson has decades of courtroom experience in his home state of Texas on controversial and important trials. Now, in Dead Peasants, Thompson has delivered a fast-moving and suspenseful legal thriller featuring a retired lawyer whose life gets turned upside down when a stranger asks for help.

    Jack Bryant, exhausted after a high-profile career as a lawyer, takes an early retirement in Fort Worth, Texas, where he plans to kick back, relax, and watch his son play football at TCU. But then an elderly widow shows up with a check for life insurance benefits and that is suspiciously made payable to her dead husband's employer, Jack can't turn down her pleas for help and files a civil suit to collect the benefits rightfully due the widow. A chain of events that can't be stopped thrusts Jack into a vortex of killings, and he and his new love interest find themselves targets of a murderer.

    Gripping, engaging, and written with the authority that only a seasoned lawyer could possess, Dead Peasants is a legal thriller that will stun and surprise you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781250018007
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    Dead Peasants: A Thriller
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    Larry D. Thompson

    LARRY D. THOMPSON is a managing partner of the Houston trial firm he founded. He is the proud father of three grown children and admiring brother of the late Tommy Thompson, author of the classic Blood and Money. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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    • 4/5
      This legal thriller, Dead Peasants by Larry D. Thompson threw me for a loop. After reading a bit, I started searching wildly for more information via the Internet. I wasn't aware of Dead Peasants Life Insurance Policies before,The title of this book betrays the secret practice of many corporations taking out life insurance policies on its employees and profiting when they die. I did work for a corporation that did that while I was working. So I wonder will that company profit after I die. This situation makes a great base for a mystery. I am not to spoil it for you with very many details.Mystery, suspense, intrigue, murder, big money, a great courtroom scene and a blooming love interest are what make this book great. My only negative is that I wanted a little more character depth for Jackson Douglas Bryant and Colby Stripling. The feelings are there but I just wanted more detail. That does not mean that I didn't love this book. This book is definitely a page turner.Jack is a very successful lawyer who likes to take risks in the courtroom.He played his legal cards right and made a lot of money. So when he retires he wants to go back to Fort Worth to show the people in his high school that he made a success of himself. He wants to connect with his son, and watch him play football in college. He wants a more relaxed life.He bought house to enjoy his realtor and later interior decorator are drawn to each other but not without problems. When Jack is contacted by a widow who mistakenly receives a check made out to her dead husband's former employer. He and Colby become targets of a killer.I highly recommend Dead Peasants for all who love thrillers and want to learn about a chilling business practice.I received an e-book copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. No financial renumeration was received.
    • 4/5
      This legal thriller came out last October and I can't believe I hadn't heard about it earlier. However, thanks to Partners in Crime Tours I have now read it, to the detriment of household chores. Jack Bryant is a very wealthy man due to a successful career as a plaintiff attorney in many cases against large corporations. He was brilliant at getting huge settlements in those cases and of course his share of the settlement was sizable. After his last case, he suddenly announced that he was retiring. His son was set to play football for TCU, and you know how Texans love their football, so he was moving to Fort Worth to enjoy life and watch his son's games.The early part of the book where he is settling into an expensive house, becoming intrigued with the beautiful realtor, meeting up with his son J.R., and where we learn about all of his cars, truck, RV, etc. is my least favorite part. Then the story picks up as he becomes bored with retirement and sets up a pro bono legal practice in his RV in a poor section of town, thereby stirring up all kinds of trouble with the people who had been taking advantage of the poor.That's when I decided I liked this guy and the story pulled me in like a fish on a hook. I had no idea what "dead peasants" meant and was interested in the story of what that phrase has to do with taking money rightfully due unknowing people. I was fooled for most of the book; Thompson led me right down the garden path to the wrong conclusion, but in retrospect I saw all the clues I had missed. Love a book like that.Larry Thompson is an attorney who lives in Texas so the setting and the legalities come from an author who knows what he's writing about. I enjoyed the feeling of being in Texas throughout the story.Recommended readingSource: Author via Partners in Crime Tours