This book was about a court case PYNEX vs. Wood. Pynex was a member of the "Big Four" Tobacco companies and Ms. Wood is widow of Jacob Wood a long time smoker and victim of lung cancer and emphysema. The Tobacco industry has been in many other court cases just like this and has won all of them. The Tobacco industry must insure a victory by any means possible because if not there would be a million other civil cases where people would sue and win consequently costing the industry billions of dollars. But this (court) case was different from the start. Initially the plaintiff had enough money to pay for a top tier lawyer, which was a first, but this they knew. What they didn't know would turn out to be the decisive factor in the trial; they were unaware that they were dealing with the mysterious and ingenious duo of Nicholas Easter and his female companion Marlee.

This book began with the jury selection in this case. Now like in every other case the Tobacco Company does their dirty work to study all of the jurors. A man named Rankin Fitch heads this research and all of the other impure tactics performed by the Tobacco Companies to try to win the case. What the researchers do is

dig into the prospective jurors pasts and try to judge whether they will be for the Tobacco Company or for the plaintiff even though this is legal they still find a way to taint it a bit. If they are not sure if the juror will be pro or anti Tobacco they send an operative, in this circumstance the operative is a beautiful young blond woman who is in a computer store making conversation with her target, here is where we meet the mysterious and clever Nicholas Easter, midway threw the conversation she slyly lights a cigarette and studies his reaction to it, he cunningly recognizes the situation, though you do not know this first reading the book, and simply says there is a no smoking policy in the store and she must comply and put the cigarette out. You just get the feeling from the beginning of the book that this man, Nicholas Easter, Is going to be a major part of this novel. The reason this jumps out at you, the reader, is because the author did not take as much time if anytime to describe the other jurors but slowly and surely throughout the book as he developed their character he revealed more about their pasts. The thing that was most fascinating was when you were reading about Nicholas in the beginning you could never imagine the ingenious plan he and Marlee were unfolding on the Tobacco Company. He started out as a two-bit computer salesman who lived in a broken, run down apartment and when more is revealed the reader finds out he is a college graduate with a psychology degree with two years of law school.

The first part of the book was not directed towards the court case but more so in the direction of the jury. From the very start of the trial even though he was not the jury foreman Nicholas was the leader of the jury. He revealed to them the ins and outs of the trial process revealing his tenure at law school. He also exposed dirty facts, that he had found reading through newspaper articles of old cases much like this one, about the chance that the Tobacco Companies could be following them, engaging in conversation with r

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Approximate Word count = 1383
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)