Judge & Jury

By: James Patterson, Andrew Gross

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss "The Electrician", when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI agents are dead, the boss is wounded, and Pellisante vows the Electrician's next move will be from a jail cell.

Andie Echeverra, a part-time actress and a single, full-time mom, is assigned her next role as Juror #11 in the landmark trial against Mafia Don Dominic Cavello. Everybody is on edge. No one has ever crossed the man whose orders have made entire families disappear.

Though Cavello's influence extends across blue uniforms and black robes, the case should be open-and-shut. But the legal system fails with devastating results, and Nick and Andie are the only ones left to seek justice. To stop the Electrician, they must take matters into their own hands. They are the judge and jury now.

James Patterson spins an all-out heart-pounding legal thriller that pits two people against the most vicious and powerful mobster since John Gotti.

©2006 James Patterson. All rights reserved (P)2006 Hachette Audio. All rights reserved

Critic reviews

"A compelling hero and a truly evil villain distinguish this exciting read." (Booklist)

Modern Day Cowboy

Entertaining and fast paced, the hunt to bring in the bad guy reminds me of the stories of the wild west of the past. Nick Pillisante is out to get this Don of the Mob and swings that lasso all by himself -- a modern day vigilante who operates as a loner even though he's a city detective ...of course a bit unrealistic, but what detective story isn't? The chase takes you to South America for a while, providing interesting challenges to the hunt. The narrator is great. You won't want to stop listening!

Pretty Good Listen

I enjoyed the book. The characters were good, the story was good. The reader did a good job!

Nothing here is going to knock your socks off and leave you clammering for more, but it was worth the listen

Entertaining from beginning to end.

This was my first James Patterson audio book. Kept me interested from beginning to end. Joe Mantegna did an excellent job with Narration which really made it very enjoyable. I will definately listen to more Patterson.

Judge & Jury

Theselius authors appar to be verk personalbehov and Brighton. Bit Wheel, Shatila kind of dress do The’yi have to write absolut such horrible perplex? I am blind and my imagination goes wild Wien i listen. 8akso Whyred my typning is so åror).
I States awake all nigit listening to Joe Montenegro read to me.
God work guts!

Very interesting story

This is a little far fetch the murderer seem to have no stops he was allowed to kill a jury you blowing up a bus smuggle explosives into a courthouse I wonder how close to life that really is I hope we are far more protected than this story appears that it was OK not one of my favorite Patterson books

Good quick story

A very quick and easy story to listen to; quite different from Patterson's Alex Cross mysteries. Joe Mantegna does a very credible job narrating this tale. Just bear in mind that this isn't classic literature and you'll enjoy it.

One thing, though - the sound effects and music are completely unnecessary and considerably detracted from my enjoyment of this book.

Disappointing

This story was so implausible it was really hard to listen til the end. The reading of it was fine. It's just that where the authors take their characters is so darn unbelievable as to make you start laughing in disbelief at the plot fairly early on in the book. Others of Mr. Patterson's books are so much better written. I'm actually sorry I wasted points on this one.

Compelling but at times unrealistic

Good legal drama and great character development but has moments where storyline seems far fetched.

WOW!

This was almost perfect entertainment.-almost too much violence. I’ve gotten all of Andrew Gross’ books so when I ran across this one, even though I have the hard copy, I had to get it.
I didn’t remember much about it so it was like a new listen. I recommend this book but I highly recommend Andrew Gross’ novels. Some of the very best I’ve ever read.

I want more and more of Patterson and Company

As usual I android The 2 of these wonderful writers together Pulling off another fantastic book Thank you And by the way your aerator is Marvelous