CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.
Bodily Harm by Robert Dugoni opens with David Sloane and his partner Tom Pendergress winning a multi-million dollar medical malpractice suit against a well-known pediatrician Dr Douvalidis centered on the death of a young child. But the victory turns sour when the doctor commits suicide and an unlikely character, toy designer Kyle Horgan, contacts Sloane to tell him that he’s gotten it all wrong: Horgan admits he is the one who’s truly responsible for the little boy’s death and if something is not done, there is a possibly many other children will die. He gives Sloane a file containing details of a toy called Metamorphosis that he has designed and sold the rights to Kendall Toy.
Sloane might have dismissed such a person as a crackpot, but he is already conflicted about elements of the case. He becomes badly affected when another child dies under circumstances eerily similar to the one blamed on Dr. Douvalidis.
When Sloane tries to follow up with Horgan, he finds the man’s apartment has been ransacked by unknown perpetrators and Horgan has vanished without a trace. Together with his longtime investigative partner Charles Jenkins, Sloane digs deeper into Horgan’s claims and discovers a world of greed, lies, corruption and murder behind the facade of the billion-dollar, cutthroat toy industry. As Sloane gets closer to the truth, he is almost assassinated by an ex-CIA assassin, Anthony Stenopolis. His wife is killed by the assassin, causing his world to crumble.
To find justice for the families of the dead children, Sloane must keep in check his overwhelming desire for revenge. The book is filled nail-bitingly tense action scenes as well as edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama.
I have not read a legal thriller for quite a long time. Bodily Harm turned out to be one of the best legal thrillers that I have ever read. Robert Dugoni is at the very top of his game. In my personal opinion, he is much better than John Grisham. Bodily Harm may break your heart in many ways, in the story about the children who die, the others who die who try to do the right thing, and Sloane’s personal tragedy.