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 Above the Law - Dexter Dias
 Above the Law - Dexter Dias ... caught in the crossfire of a shooting, his mother Andrea, a former defence lawyer, manages to free him by agreeing to defend a Yardie hit man. She then becomes embroiled in a case where corruption, drugs and violence are rife. Customer ReviewsNewest Review: ... shooter Earl Whitely whilst the other is his best friend Calvin who is the son of Andrea Chambers. This brings all three of ... more ... the main characters into contact both on the street and in the courtroom.
Although the story does switch between the three main characters from a story telling viewpoint by far the one who is the centre of attention is Chambers, and it is she that the reader gets the most insight into with regards to motivation and emotions. All three of the main protagonists have flaws to their characters and with Chambers these mostly focus on her emotional state of mind linked to the events of the past which saw her give up crimina...more |
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Above the Law - Dexter Dias: Yardie gun crime again? (982 words)
by - written on 21/04/07 (Very useful, 175 readings)
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There are a lot of good qualities to this book and I did find it an enjoyable read which was both gripping and thought provoking however the one thing that did let it down was that it followed a very tried and trusted formula and hence it became quite predictable and lacked the sort of plot twists that would make me as a reader think “Wow I never saw that coming” The book centres on three main characters, a Yardie drug dealer Roots Johnson, DCI Hogarth a MET officer and Andrea Chambers a former criminal barrister who now practices commercial law in her fathers practice. The story opens with the shooting of a white south London eight year old girl who is caught ... Read the complete review
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