Betrayal

A Novel (Dismas Hardy, Book 12)

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times best-selling author John Lescroart presents an ambitious thriller featuring San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy.

“Betrayal is provocative…a tour de force of a legal thriller.” (The Providence Journal)

Dismas Hardy agrees to take an appeal to overturn the murder conviction of National Guard reservist Evan Scholler. Scholler had plenty of reasons for revenge - but as Dismas delves into the case, he begins to uncover a terrible truth that drops him right into the complicated world of government conspiracy, assassination, and betrayal...

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©2008 The Lescroart Corporation (P)2007 Brilliance Audio

Critic reviews

"Full of believable characters and crisp dialogue. A first-rate addition to the author's ongoing series." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Who needs John Grisham when we have homegrown John Lescroart?" ( San Francisco magazine)
"Exciting and believable, thanks to strong narration." ( AudioFile)

Fiirst time - series

This was my first of this series and I quite enjoyed the book, kept me listeneing. I will listen to more of the Dismas Hardy Series

Not my favorite Lescroart

Would you try another book from John Lescroart and/or David Colacci?

yes

If you’ve listened to books by John Lescroart before, how does this one compare?

Other stories had more believable characters and Dismas played a bigger role which I enjoyed more. Have read them all to this book. Plan to continue the series. I hope this is not the beginning of a new style.

Any additional comments?

Narration was superb, as usual.

another great book

I loved it...can't wait to start the next one...John Lescroart is a master story teller

another great another great Dismas Hardy book

I've been reading this series in order and every time I finish I think this is the best one yet. A large part of the story this time his background that the regular characters aren't involved in, it was still gripping story. The finsl resolution chilling and satisfying.

great read!

narrator read the book as if I was in the story. another hh good book to recommend.

The best Lescroart yet

With "Betrayal," John Lescroart departs a bit from his ongoing San Francisco series of novels. For one thing, part of the action takes place -- as a flashback -- in Iraq, unveiling some of the sobering corruption taking place there at our government's expense. Secondly, much of the subsequent action takes place not in San Francisco, but down the Peninsula in Redwood City. We still have Lescroart's perennial protagonists -- best friends Dismus Hardy and Abe Glitsky, defense attorney and cop -- working together to discover the hidden machinations that sent an innocent man to prison. But this time they don't enter center stage until midway through the story. Lescroart definitely did his homework for this novel, delving deep beyond his legal and law-enforcement expertise into the ugly underbelly of the Iraq war and the unscrupulous contractors capitalizing on it. But, as always, he also delves deep into the hearts and minds of his characters, making them real to us, and making us care about them. Also, as always, David Colacci does a magnificent job narrating this audiobook. He has a wide range of voices and accents to draw upon, clearly distinguishing the characters from each other. I recommend this audiobook to anybody who enjoys legal thrillers with heart.

John Lescroarts does the Middle East.

Lescroarts's series of Dismas Hardy-Abe Glitzky novels is one of the most beautifully sustained works in this entire genre of legal thrillers. If you have read a few of them, you know that the combination of these three plus David Colacci's narration is unfailingly entertaining. In this book Lescroarts addresses the Middle East chaos in a way that involves a new attorney for much of the book, a character who is less interesting than Dismas and Abe. However, the story is very well told, and I have a hard time imagining any reader putting it down. It is funny, which is a relief in this genre, which tends toward the plodding and detail-ridden, particularly the legal details. Lescroarts, however, generally requires his heroes to solve the murder (or appear to do so) while the trial or appeal is happening. This style tends to leaven the weight of legality which can bog down other authors. The end of the book is a surprising twist which I will not give away, as Lescroarts earns the reader's full involvement. He continues telling us about developments in the private lives of Hardy and Glitzky, which makes them much more interesting and real than the heroes who are frozen in time by the author's need to crank out more books. If you have never read one of these, you are in for a treat. If you know the series, you will not be disappointed by this one. Keep 'em coming, John. And, particularly, don't let anyone other than David Colacci narrate them.

Not a Dismiss Hardy book

What did you love best about Betrayal?

I love listening to David Calocci...he does a great job.

Would you ever listen to anything by John Lescroart again?

Always if David Calocci is performing.

Any additional comments?

This was so not a Dismiss Hardy book and I was disappointed that it was portrayed as one. It wasn't until the book was 3/4 done that he (and Glitsky) were really in the storyline.

Where is Dismas Hardy?

Any additional comments?

This book is alright, but as a Dismas Hardy book, it falls short. Why? Because Dismas Hardy is absent for the majority of the novel. As much as I like the Hardy series, I felt short changed, as though I was sold a mediocre novel in a Dismas Hardy package: keep listening, Dismas Hardy will make an appearance soon. By the time he did, I had forgotten I was expecting him.

BRILLIANT!!!!!

Everything about this book is brilliant!!! Every chapter builds the momentum, further legitimizing the books premise, leaving its listener anxious for more. It delivers, to the very end.