Pro Bono by Thomas Perry

 

Yeah, I wanted to read a novel I was confident I was going to like, that didn't feel like it was some sort of nostaliga-anticipointment tango, so I grabbed this from the stack. (I'll read Something Wicked This Way Comes soon enough, for the first time since I think college. That's more than thirty years. Agh.) I chose well, it's a tautly-written novel, feels as though it's probably the latest in a series but it's mostly self-contained and I didn't really miss whatever I haven't read, if anything. Perry can turn a phrase when he wants to, though his prose is normally pretty constrained and direct. This one kinda skitters into something at least bordering Legal Thriller territory, but that's fine, that stuff comes across as pretty believable to this moderately aware layman and it mostly informs much of what the main character does. Has some neat sequences around the relationship the main finds himself in.