The Plea: A Novel
Feb 2018 · Eddie Flynn Book 2 · Sold by Flatiron Books
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“CRIMINALLY ENTERTAINING.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
“The Plea is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year. It's a blast.”—John Connolly, bestselling author of the Charlie Parker novels
Eddie Flynn earned his law degree in the school of hard knocks. Now this con-artist-turned-criminal defense attorney is about to take on his toughest case yet.
Billionaire David Child swears he didn’t murder his girlfriend, Clara—even if the evidence suggests otherwise. Home security video showed no intrusion. The murder weapon was in David’s own car. He seems guilty as charged. So why won’t he plead guilty?
Meanwhile, the FBI needs David’s help in taking down a huge money laundering scheme. Now it’s up to David’s lawyer, Eddie, to get him to take a plea bargain. Otherwise the FBI will use incriminating files on Eddie’s wife to send her to jail. Still, David insists that he didn’t murder anyone. . .
As the FBI pressures Eddie to secure the guilty plea, Eddie becomes increasingly convinced that David is telling the truth. With adversaries threatening, Eddie has to find a way to prove David’s innocence and find out if there’s any way he might have been framed. But the stakes are high: Eddie’s wife is in danger. And not just from the FBI...
“If you’re a fan of John Grisham...you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh.” —Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“The Plea is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year. It's a blast.”—John Connolly, bestselling author of the Charlie Parker novels
Eddie Flynn earned his law degree in the school of hard knocks. Now this con-artist-turned-criminal defense attorney is about to take on his toughest case yet.
Billionaire David Child swears he didn’t murder his girlfriend, Clara—even if the evidence suggests otherwise. Home security video showed no intrusion. The murder weapon was in David’s own car. He seems guilty as charged. So why won’t he plead guilty?
Meanwhile, the FBI needs David’s help in taking down a huge money laundering scheme. Now it’s up to David’s lawyer, Eddie, to get him to take a plea bargain. Otherwise the FBI will use incriminating files on Eddie’s wife to send her to jail. Still, David insists that he didn’t murder anyone. . .
As the FBI pressures Eddie to secure the guilty plea, Eddie becomes increasingly convinced that David is telling the truth. With adversaries threatening, Eddie has to find a way to prove David’s innocence and find out if there’s any way he might have been framed. But the stakes are high: Eddie’s wife is in danger. And not just from the FBI...
“If you’re a fan of John Grisham...you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh.” —Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“CRIMINALLY ENTERTAINING.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
“The Plea is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year. It's a blast.”—John Connolly, bestselling author of the Charlie Parker novels
Eddie Flynn earned his law degree in the school of hard knocks. Now this con-...
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August 4, 2026
Every book by Cavanagh is the kind that firmly holds you in its grip and doesn't allow you to put it down until you're through. This one was no exception. There were a couple of points in the plot that were obvious from the start and perhaps slightly disappointing because of that. But it's important to remember that Cavanagh doesn't write detective mysteries. He writes courtroom thrillers. And even when something feels very suggestive or even obvious, it still takes an enormous effort on the part of Eddie Flynn to PROVE what the reader may have suspected from the start, and to survive while proving it. And it's an absolute thrill to watch him do it.
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Steve Cavanagh is a leading civil rights lawyer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His debut novel, The Defense, was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Thriller of the Year. In 2010 Cavanagh represented a factory worker who suffered racial discrimination in the workplace, and won the largest award of damages in Northern Ireland’s legal history. Cavanagh continues to write and practice law. He is married and has two young children.
Steve Cavanagh is a leading civil rights lawyer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His debut novel, The Defense, was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Thriller of the Year. In 2010 Cavanagh represented a factory worker who suffered racial discrimination in the workplace, and won t...
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