The Alligator Man
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James Sheehan. (2013). The Alligator Man. Center Street.

James Sheehan. 2013. The Alligator Man. Center Street.

James Sheehan, The Alligator Man. Center Street, 2013.

James Sheehan. The Alligator Man. Center Street, 2013.

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     James Sheehan is the author of The Lawyer's Lawyer, The Mayor of Lexington Avenue, and The Law of Second Chances. He was a successful trial attorney for 30 years, and currently teaches trial law and is the Director of the Tampa Law Institute at Stetson University College of Law in Tampa, Florida.

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Kevin Wylie's crooked boss wants to run him out of town, and Kevin's long-time girlfriend is ready to take a hike. He decides to leave Miami and visit his father, who he hasn't seen in 28 years. Heading back to his hometown, Kevin doesn't realize that he and his dad will become embroiled in a murder case.
The victim, one of the richest and most-hated corporate criminals in America has been dubbed The Alligator Man after pieces of his clothing were found in a local swamp. Billy Fuller had every reason to want the victim dead and all the evidence leads right to his doorstep. But legendary lawyer Tom Wylie believes in Billy and he and his son reunite to fight for Billy's life.
The Alligator Man is a story of greed, anger, love, redemption and two powerful trial attorneys who fight to the end— and risk everything—for the truth.

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Kevin Wylie's crooked boss wants to run him out of town, and Kevin's long-time girlfriend is ready to take a hike. He decides to leave Miami and visit his father, who he hasn't seen in 28 years. Heading back to his hometown, Kevin doesn't realize that he and his dad will become embroiled in a murder case.
The victim, one of the richest and most-hated corporate criminals in America has been dubbed The Alligator Man after pieces of his clothing were found in a local swamp. Billy Fuller had every reason to want the victim dead and all the evidence leads right to his doorstep. But legendary lawyer Tom Wylie believes in Billy and he and his son reunite to fight for Billy's life.
The Alligator Man is a story of greed, anger, love, redemption and two powerful trial attorneys who fight to the end— and risk everything—for the truth.

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   • source: Kirkus Reviews, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
   • content: "Fun stuff."— Kirkus Reviews, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
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   • source: Fresh Fiction, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
   • content: "This is the second book that I read by James Sheehan. James is a great writer, rating right up there with James Patterson. James Sheehan was a lawyer and you can tell by the way the book is written. James brings you right into the court room and gives a lot of the back story of this trial."—Fresh Fiction, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
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   • source: Bookviews.com, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
   • content: "James Sheehan, knows a lot about the law. He practiced it for thirty years and has written three acclaimed legal thrillers. I recommended Sheehan's last novel, 'The Lawyer's Lawyer,' and I definitely recommend his new one."—Bookviews.com, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
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   • source: Florida Book Review, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
   • content: "Sheehan is a gifted storyteller who fans of Paul Levine or James Grippando's Florida-set legal thrillers should enjoy. THE ALLIGATOR MAN merges the fast pave of Miami with the rural, one stoplight towns that skirt Florida's Everglades, where alligators aren't the most dangerous predators lurking."—Florida Book Review, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
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   • source: Library Journal, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
   • content: "It is not only the development of each character's individual story but Sheehan's ability to compel his readers to care about them that sets this book apart from other legal thrillers."—Library Journal, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
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   • source: Tampa Bay Times, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
   • content: "The courtroom action is compelling...And Sheehan keeps the surprises-come scary, some bittersweet-coming to the very last page."—Tampa Bay Times, on THE ALLIGATOR MAN
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   • source: The Washington Post on The Lawyer's Lawyer
   • content: "[Sheehan] is especially good whenever he takes us into a courtroom.... Sheehan brings the three-way jousting of a criminal trial...to blazing life."
     
     —The Washington Post on The Lawyer's Lawyer
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on The Lawyer's Lawyer
   • content: "Exciting...legal thriller...Sheehan...keep(s) the tension high..."—Publishers Weekly on The Lawyer's Lawyer
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   • source: The New York Times, on The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
   • content: "Sheehan...writes with bleak clarity...but there's a touch of the poet in his voice."—The New York Times, on The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
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    • source: Nelson DeMille, on The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
    • content: "This is a debut novel but it reads like it was written by a master of the genre."—Nelson DeMille, on The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
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    • source: Kirkus Reviews, on The Law of Second Chances
    • content: "An assured, elegant, suspenseful courtroom thriller."
      —Kirkus Reviews, on The Law of Second Chances
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    • source: Richard North Patterson, on The Law of Second Chances
    • content: "Fast moving and tightly written...boasts a gripping story and characters who will make the reader care. Al in all, a stylish and engaging novel."
      —Richard North Patterson, on The Law of Second Chances
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      August 12, 2013
      In this straightforward, character-driven stand-alone, Sheehan (The Lawyer’s Lawyer and two other Jack Tobin legal thrillers) clearly distinguishes between heroes and villains. Wealthy Roy Johnson has retired to Gladestown, Fla., after escaping with a golden parachute from his company, Dynatron, whose collapse destroyed the jobs, health insurance, and pensions of 20,000 employees. When Roy is reported missing one morning, some people at first presume that an alligator snatched him on his nightly drunken walk. Then a local teen comes forward to report a hit-and-run, followed by a witness’s report of a man leaving a bar in a nearby town on that night, muttering about killing someone. Police quickly identify the man as former Dynatron employee Billy Fuller. Enter Kevin Wylie, an unemployed defense lawyer visiting his dying father in Billy’s hometown. Sheehan paints a sympathetic portrait of Kevin, Billy, and others on the side of the law, while crafting an ending that will satisfy readers who like to see justice prevail.

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      August 1, 2013
      Sheehan (The Law of Second Chances, 2008, etc.) weaves a father-son reconciliation melodrama into a Florida courtroom clash sparked by murder and corruption. Kevin Wylie is the top-ranked associate in Bernie Stang's Miami, Fla., criminal defense firm. While contemplating setting up shop for himself, he learns of a dark secret behind the high-rolling Stang's defense of drug dealers. With that, Stang tells Wylie the town isn't big enough for both of them. Struggling with that threat, Kevin gets word that his long-estranged father, Tom, also an attorney, is dying of cancer. Kevin's asked to visit Tom in the north Florida town of St. Albans. Meantime, Roy Johnson, former CEO of Dynatron, a bankrupt international energy company, has been reported killed in a deliberate hit-and-run accident near his lavish estate at Gladestown at the Everglades' edge. Johnson profited from a $100 million buyout shortly before Dynatron went belly-up, leaving employees jobless and with no insurance or pension funds. It's no surprise Johnson's been run down on the road, but the real shock is that Billy Fuller, a longtime friend of Tom Wylie, is accused of the murder. Despite the great premise--an Enron-Lehman-Brothers-CEO-pirate becoming alligator fare after being knocked into the swamp--Sheehan's characters are too easily slotted into neat spots on the storyboard: Kevin's an angst-ridden, earnest Tom Cruise type, with a Matthew McConaughey type stepping in as fisherman/guide/auxiliary sheriff/vigilante Carlisle Buchanan. Readers meet the standard judge who dislikes the brash defense attorney, enjoy the requisite father-son reconciliation, and watch as one love affair crashes and another simmers back home in St. Albans, all while Sheehan runs past three conclusions before he terminates every loose plot thread. Fun stuff, albeit less tense and conflicted than the works of Scott Turow and John Grisham.

      COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      September 15, 2013
      

      At first glance, Sheehan's latest legal thriller (after The Lawyer's Lawyer) is about the gruesome murder (by alligator) of villain extraordinaire corporate CEO Roy Johnson and the ensuing trial of the man accused of committing that murder, newspaper columnist Billy Fuller, who lost everything when Johnson's company went belly up. Though Sheehan deftly lays out the elements of the sheriff's department's murder investigation and leads the reader through the engaging set of twists and turns in attorney Kevin Wylie's defense of Billy, the novel's true strength lies in its characters--major and minor. There's sheriff's auxiliary officer Carlisle Buchanan, who learned to navigate the Florida Everglades at his father's side; Kevin's own father, Tom, and artist Kate Parker, Tom's longtime companion; savvy prosecutor Jeanette Truluc; Freddie Jenkins, the teenager who may have been the only witness to the murder; Bernie Stang, Kevin's former employer; David Lefter, Bernie's "numbers guy"; and even bartender George Russo--each with his or her own stake in the outcome of the proceedings. VERDICT It is the not only the development of each character's individual story but Sheehan's ability to compel his readers to care about them that sets this book apart from other legal thrillers.--Nancy McNicol, Hamden P.L., CT

      Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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