Alumni Association
A Novel
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Publisher Description
The acclaimed author of Noble Chase lays down the law with an irresistible tale of buried secrets and gloves-off legal combat at a secretive military school—for readers of John Grisham, Greg Iles, and Linda Fairstein.
When young attorney Beth Swahn agrees to represent a former military academy facing demolition, what begins as a simple real estate litigation soon becomes a dangerously real threat. Beth’s stepfather, a founding partner at her law firm, is part of the now-shuttered school’s alumni association that’s determined to see its old campus preserved as a historical landmark, safe from developers’ bulldozers. But beneath the campus’s main building—once the nineteenth-century mansion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s older brother—runs an extensive network of tunnels, which may be where the alumni’s true interest lies . . . along with their school days’ darkest secrets.
As more of the academy’s former cadets become entangled in the case, and millions of dollars mysteriously go missing, Beth faces increasingly treacherous legal landmines—and worse—in a case that could be more than just a career killer.
Michael Rudolph’s gripping legal thrillers featuring Beth Swahn can be enjoyed together or separately:
NOBLE CHASE • ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Customer Reviews
Superbly complex plot
This was a solid 4.5 raised to a 5 star read. Years earlier a group of highly successful men all attended the same prep school. The school is now closed and designated as a historical landmark including the tunnels beneath it that were a hangout for the older prep school students and are presently considered to be abandoned. In 1984, a student was found to have hanged himself in his dorm room and the suicide was covered up by the school. Today a group of developers are attempting to buy the property and convert it. A prominent law firm is hired by the Alumni Association to make sure that the school’s best interests continue to be guarded. Beth Spahn, our heroine, is now head of this firm and leading the investigation of what is actually going on. There is a superbly complex plot involving money laundering, drug importing and dealing, theft in a grand scale and, of course hypocrisy, sexual abuse, spousal abuse and all sorts of other evil and criminal deeds. Much of the action takes place in urban areas but the finale takes place on a sail boat. The author is obviously very familiar with sailing in the 21st Century which makes it even more captivating. This is an excellent read. Thanks to Net Galley and Ballantine for an e-Galley for an honest review.
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