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Title	:	Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget #2)
Author	:	Richard North Patterson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 534 pages
Published	:	December 4th 1993 by Ballantine Books (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Legal Thriller. Crime

Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget #2)

Richard North Patterson

Paperback | Pages: 534 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 9538 Users | 161 Reviews

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TV journalist Mary Carelli admits that she shot and killed Mark Ransom, one of the world’s most famous authors. She claims it was self-defense. She swears he tried to rape her. Now she has to prove it in a court of law—with her former lover acting as her attorney…

Christopher Paget is one of the top lawyers in the country. But defending the mother of his son in the trial of the decade, he begins to have doubts. Is Mary telling the truth? Did she invent her story about the rape? What is she hiding? With each shocking revelation, Paget is forced to question his defense, his ethics, and the whole legal system. Because no one, not even the judge, is completely innocent. And guilt is a matter of degree…

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Original Title:	Degree of Guilt
ISBN:	034538184X (ISBN13: 9780345381842)
Edition Language:	English URL http://richardnorthpattersonbooks.com/
Series:	Christopher Paget #2
Literary Awards:	Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Romans étrangers (1995)

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This is a good legal case study, well-written and with good characters. I really want to say I enjoyed the book, but it became ponderous. One of those "am I really STILL reading this book?" I haven't read a Patterson in a while and I did not read the first novel in this series. I don't think I'll run out and buy the next one, either. A good author, a decent book, but perhaps too overdone.

This was a bit of a windy affair, I thought, although there were some unsettling accounts of rape and female degradation. No need to describe the plot as the synopsis tells you the facts you need to know about this 700-page monster that ambles back and forth between legal and domestic drama. The legal stuff is all right, though extremely repetitive, and would probably go over well in a movie. I know plenty of people love courtroom drama and there is some meat here, though it takes about 400

Another of Richard North Patterson's legal thrillers. This one revolves around Christopher Paget, a lawyer who had previously brought down a president with the help of Mary Carelli. Now a high profile TV journalist, and mother of his child. She has called him to the police station where she is being held after shooting dead Mark Ransom, America's pre-eminent novelist. The only thing certain is that she did shoot him, but why?[return][return]This book is stuffed full of twists and turns that you

I actually haven't read many legal thrillers. The one before this I remember best was Grisham's The Firm and the one I read just before this was Lescroart's Hard Evidence. Patterson has it all over Lescroart, who within a hundred pages showed he knew nothing of the law, completely losing credibility. And credibility is important, whether you're writing about a nuclear submarine or medieval London. Patterson, who worked as a trial attorney and was a liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor,

Excellent read . The 5 stars are for the legal proceedings and intensity of the trial, beautifully written. But I feel that the author finished the story poorly and wrapped things up tidily but rather cliched. You have one of the most fascinating and complicated female characters - Mary Carelli - both refreshing and compelling to discover. And then there is little-miss-perfect-do-gooder -Terri -that honestly is exhausting to follow throughout the story; I had to skip some of her scene at the end

What marks the difference between a writer's outlook toward the work of another, and that of the non-writer, reader? Not much I think, but one thing stands out in my mind. That is the willingness to fight through to the end of the book if necessary. It was not necessary here. The story told by Mr. Patterson is great. The urgency of the content is consistent with the society in which we all live. The characters are well drawn, including the rapist Ransom, right down to the teen-age son, Carlo.

I picked this up in a holiday house and wished I hadn't. The plot was contrived and repetitive, the writing mediocre and the characters unattractive. Eventually I gave up and skipped to the end which was completely predictable.