Price of Victory, The: A Novel(S2116)

by Vincent S. Green | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0802712002 Global Overview for this book
Registered by SAMMY-SAMSEL of St. Louis, Missouri USA on 12/10/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by SAMMY-SAMSEL from St. Louis, Missouri USA on Saturday, December 10, 2005
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paperback
302pp
published, 1993

FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
With the intensity of The Caine Mutiny , this dramatic first novel by a former Army lawyer depicts the court- martial of a career soldier brought up on charges of drug dealing. Billy Frazier, a Special Forces hero who has taken an administrative posting in Germany in an attempt to save his marriage, is accused of smuggling and selling hashish, offenses punishable by up to 40 years in Leavenworth prison. Frazier, who maintains he is being framed, asks Jack Hayes to defend him. Hayes, long pestered by his wife to join her father's corporate law firm, has remained a military lawyer because he hates the idea of ``defending big insurance companies.'' Hayes survives a visit with Frazier's alleged source, who lives in a section of Amsterdam where even the police are reluctant to venture, but still must come up with a defense that will impress the hard-line judge, known as the Whopper for the size of his sentences. Although Frazier's main accuser is jailed on charges of robbing an Army payroll vault, the judge disallows a vital piece of evidence for the defense; then the prosecution turns over a high card that Hayes can't beat except by stretching the limits of his and his profession's ethical code. Unlike Wouk's military courtroom classic, this taut debut closes with a shattering surprise. (May)

Library Journal
Sergeant Billy Frazier, a decorated war hero, is accused of drug dealing by an insane officer and a fellow sergeant. Captain Jack Hayes, assigned to defend him, must discover whether Frazier is the mastermind behind the biggest drug ring in Europe or simply a victim of circumstances. Hayes's investigation takes him from the streets of Frankfurt to the back alleys of Amsterdam in a narrowly focused first novel short on description and long on courtroom drama. Readers who enjoy trial action will appreciate the realistic portrayal of a court martial, buttressed by the author's own legal experience. But Green salts his story with military jargon that, in the absence of contextual clues, will baffle those unfamiliar with the armed forces. For medium and larger fiction collections.-- Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie District P.L., Metamora

Kirkus Reviews
In this crackerjack first novel of military justice—in and out of the courtroom—Capt. Jack Hayes, assigned to defend Sgt. Billy Frazier on charges of massive drug selling, probes patiently for the weak links in the prosecution's case: the alleged Amsterdam connection denies knowing Frazier; one of the Army's two witnesses against Frazier, an admitted dealer who's testifying for a reduced sentence, gets blown up before he can take the stand; and the surviving witness, Lt. Robert McCormick, is a pumped-up soldier of fortune, a stone killer already doing 99 years for simulating a terrorist attack (with real bombs and bullets) in order to prep his men for war with Russia. Jack realizes his case won't be won on the evidence, though, but on the whims of the skeptical jury and the rulings and interpretations of Judge DiMarco (dubbed "the Whopper" for his gigantic sentences); and he doesn't foresee a rebuttal witness who can trash his defense in ten minutes, a witness who'll force him to a strategy that could land him in jail along with his client. Just about perfect in its control of the ebb and flow of each scene, and of Jack's conduct of the case as a whole: must reading for fans of courtroom drama.

Journal Entry 2 by SAMMY-SAMSEL at West County Shopping Center in Des Peres, Missouri USA on Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Released 18 yrs ago (12/28/2005 UTC) at West County Shopping Center in Des Peres, Missouri USA

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Journal Entry 3 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Wednesday, January 18, 2006
I found this book (along with another) packaged in a Ziploc bag with 2 peppermint candies. The bag was propped up next to a lamppost in the parking lot of West County mall, where I work. I plan to start reading them both, though to be honest, neither of them look like something I would be interested in. Nevertheless, I will pass them on much in the same fashion which they were found.

CAUGHT IN DES PERES (ST. LOUIS) MO USA

Journal Entry 4 by ToriGirl from Aldrich, Missouri USA on Saturday, April 15, 2006
I found thhis book on the counter at work.

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Released 17 yrs ago (7/5/2006 UTC) at Ste. Genevieve Branch Library, 21388 MO-32, 63670 in St. Genevieve, Missouri USA

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