The Defence

PRAISE FOR TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER STEVE CAVANAGH:
The very definition of a page-turner! – IAN RANKIN
Steve Cavanagh’s twists hit you between the eyes. You never see them coming. – ANTHONY HOROWITZ
This guy is the real deal. Trust me – LEE CHILD
Steve Cavanagh writes the best hooks in the business – MICK HERRON
An absolute page turner – SHARI LAPENA
Unputdownable – ALEX MICHAELIDES
The ultimate treat for crime fiction fans – JANICE HALLETT
Books this ingenious don’t come along very often – MICHAEL CONNELLY
A great author – MARTINA COLE
An absolute humdinger of a thriller - fiendishly clever and totally compelling – TM LOGAN
THE DEFENCE is everything a great thriller should be and I can’t wait to see more of Eddie Flynn – Mark Billingham
Part classic courtroom drama in the John Grisham tradition and part Bruce Willis-like action hero fiction straight out of the Die Hard franchise, this is a rip-roaring action-packed and highly entertaining debut – Irish Independent
[It] reads a lot like a courtroom drama that Lee Child might write about Jack Reacher’s younger, hotter-headed brother … This is afoot-to-the-floor thriller that pulls out with tyres smoking and takes no prisoners until it judders to a halt 400 pages later – Irish Times
Puts the “thrill” back in “legal thriller”. Non-stop action, unexpected and totally cool plot twists, a sympathetic genius of a con-man/attorney, and a clock that never ever ever stops ticking – this isn’t narrative drive, it’s rocket-like narrative propulsion! Hop aboard and enjoy the ride! – John Lescroart, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author
Imagine THE VERDICT’s Frank Galvin crossed with THE FIRM’s Mitch McDeere and you’d get something like Eddie Flynn, the quick thinking, troubled, kinetic lead of Steve Cavanagh’s debut thriller … A deliriously fast and enjoyable ride from the next big Irish crime fiction star. Highly recommended – Adrian McKinty, author of the Sean Duffy series
Get ready for a legal thriller that’ll grab you by the throat … Eddie Flynn makes his explosive debut – Gerard Brennan
Cavanagh’s stellar debut provides everything a reader could ask for in a thriller - nail-biting suspense, a Russian nesting doll of a plot, and an original and compelling lead – PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A full-on thrill-ride that hits the gas on page one and doesn’t let up until the end. Steve blends a taut legal thriller with a ticking-clock suspense plot and throws in a great protagonist in the form of Eddie Flynn that readers will want to see again and again. A terrific debut – Stuart Neville
Like Mickey Haller and Mitch McDeere before him, readers will love lawyer Eddie Flynn, the star of this high-octane, hugely entertaining legal thriller. On the evidence of this blistering debut, we’ll be hearing much more of Steve Cavanagh – Brian McGilloway, author of LITTLE GIRL LOST and HURT
Steve Cavanagh manages to pull off not only a terrific courtroom drama, but also a bit of an edge of the seat thriller, some witty and darkly humorous moments and a character you will fall in love with – LIZ LOVES BOOKS

Steve Cavanagh has sold over a million copies of his novels in the UK alone and over four million worldwide. His third novel, The Liar, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year 2018. Thirteen won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2019. Twisted, Fifty-Fifty, The Devil’s Advocate, and The Accomplice were all Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers, and his three most recent books—Kill For Me Kill For You, Witness 8, and Two Kinds of Stranger—were all Sunday Times Top 5 bestsellers.

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