Clean Hands, Patrick Hoffman
Clean Hands, Patrick Hoffman
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Clean Hands
A Novel

Author: Patrick Hoffman

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/28/2020


Synopsis

Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on the most high-stakes case in company history defending a prominent bank. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost his phone—and the secret documents that were on it—she needs help. Badly.

Enter ex-CIA officer Valencia Walker, a high-priced fixer who gets called in when governments, corporations, and plutocrats need their problems solved discretely. But things get complicated when the missing phone is retrieved: somebody has already copied the documents, and now they're blackmailing the firm. When the situation gets murkier still—hinting that darker forces may be churning below the surface—Elizabeth and Valencia must maneuver and outmaneuver whomever is behind this and, most importantly, keep their hands clean.

This is a world of private security, private diplomacy, and private justice. A sharply drawn cast of characters—dirty lawyers, black-market traders, Russian criminals, and extrajudicial actors—all take part in this breakneck tour through New York. Authentic, tense, and impossible to put down, Clean Hands gives a vivid look at the connections between corporation, government, and underworld.

About Patrick Hoffman

Patrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel, The White Van, was a finalist for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and his books have been named Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of the Year.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Clean Hands Patrick Hoffman Aug 2020 Gave up on this one, DNF at page 182, less than a hundred pages left. Loved, The White Van by this author and highly recommend it. Clean Hands, for me didn’t work. Part of it was stylistic construction. There are no chapters and there is only one plotline. For me......more

Goodreads review by Monnie

Have you ever seen that TV commercial for spaghetti sauce - Ragu, if I recall correctly? "It's in there," the narrator says. Well, somewhere in this book is a story, I'm sure, but most of it went over my head in the jumble of endless characters, excessively lengthy chapters that switched gears sever......more

Goodreads review by Carol

I did not enjoy it, in fact I felt very let down by it. I started to give it a 3 star rating and then reconsidered. I had looked forward to reading this book but I struggled to get end. It was gritty but seemed full of holes. Usually I pick one of the characters that I like at the beginning of the bo......more