Con Law by Mark Gimenez

Synopsis :

John Bookman—Book to his friends—is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. He rides a Harley and wears jeans and cowboy boots and his hair too long to suit the conservative dean. He’s thirty-five, handsome and unmarried but seldom without a female companion. He teaches karate and Con Law, law school vernacular for Constitutional Law. He is a recognized constitutional law expert, debates senators on political talk shows and reduces them to blithering fools, writes scathing op-eds, and is often mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee. He is famous for taking on lost causes and winning. Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from lost causes around the country seeking his help. Some letters are funny, others are sad, most are hopeless. But every now and then, one letter captures his attention. Then, with only his latest law school intern in tow, Professor Bookman takes off on yet another adventure—not in search of ancient artifacts like Indiana Jones, but in search of truth and justice—"or as close thereto as the law allows." In this first installment of a new series, Book investigates a murder in the world of art and fracking in Marfa, Texas.

Daily Mail (UK): "There cannot be any dispute. Gimenez has taken over John Grisham's mantle. This is his seventh legal thriller, and his work is now faster and fresher than Grisham, his characters are stronger, and his plot lines reek of tomorrow's headlines. This one centres on 'fracking'; the removal of gas from shale oil deposits, which is now the subject of fierce political debate in Britain as well as America. . . . It takes a positive delight in the intricacies of the law, but with a good helping of action thrown in, and it underlines just how much Gimenez has taken over Grisham's territory."

This is what I say :

Con Law is yet another legal thriller by Mark Gimenez.  I personally enjoyed his other titles previously with The Colour of Law being the first book that I read that I loved that started my interest in reading Mark Gimenez's titles.

However, I feel myself not liking Con Law that much.  Maybe because it's a bit over detailed in describing all that's happening especially on what 'fracking' is and it's impact or non impact on the environment which I know have something to do with drilling for oil but honestly he lost me at the first sentence.

The book is very descriptive.  And has a lot of conversations.  Not much action.  I kinda lost interest here and there.  It actually took me 2 months to read this while reading other titles in between.

I dont seems to have good luck with the last two titles by Mark Gimenez.  The Governor's Wife which was the other recent book by this author at the start of lockdown this year wasn't that nice too.

I am currently reading The Common Lawyer. Hope it fares better.  I will let you know once I am done with it.