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Summary: A must-read legal thriller
Review: JAG officer Sean Drummond is on loan to a law firm specializing in corporate law and contracts. His predecessor in the loan-out program was JAG officer Lisa Morrow. Within days of starting at the law firm, Lisa is found murdered. Drummond and Lisa share some history together so he asks to be her family's survival assistance officer. Sean and Lisa's sister Janet, an assistant DA in Boston, team up to look into Lisa's death. At first it looks to be the work of a serial killer, but soon the trail leads to the firm's largest client, a telecom giant that controls the military's top secret Internet traffic. Before the dust settles the FBI, CIA, and local law enforcement are in on the action.Sean Drummond is a bit of a wiseguy, very irreverent and sarcastic. He's hard not to like. The whole book has very strong cast of characters, both primary and secondary. The story has an involved, action-packed, suspenseful plot that hooks you from page 1. It's a long book coming in at over 400 pages, but it never drags or slows down.
Highly recommended
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Summary: Sean Drummond is back at it again!
Review: Major Sean Drummond has become one of my favorite fictional characters. In his latest adventure, Drummond is sent to work in a private law firm through a military program that sends its officers into the private sector to ensure they are exposed to the latest in the private practice of the law. This book differs from the previous novels in that it takes place solely in the United States (as compared to Russia, Korea, and Serbia). However, the lack of an exotic foreign location does not take away from the wit and action that I have come to expect from Brian Haig. Soon, Drummond is involved in the investigation of the murder of an old colleague which, of course, leads to a much bigger conspiracy that Drummond never saw coming. A great read!
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Summary: Sean Drummond is back at it again!
Review: Major Sean Drummond has become one of my favorite fictional characters. In his latest adventure, Drummond is sent to work in a private law firm through a military program that sends its officers into the private sector to ensure they are exposed to the latest in the private practice of the law. This book differs from the previous novels in that it takes place solely in the United States (as compared to Russia, Korea, and Serbia). However, the lack of an exotic foreign location does not take away from the wit and action that I have come to expect from Brian Haig. Soon, Drummond is involved in the investigation of the murder of an old colleague which, of course, leads to a much bigger conspiracy that Drummond never saw coming. A great read!
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Summary: strong action thriller
Review: Major Sean Drummond loves the army and his job as a defense attorney representing soldiers in black-ops who broke the law. His boss General Clapper needs a rest from the major and his enthusiasms that always seem to get out of hand so he takes advantage of a loan out program where army lawyers work for a year in a civilian corporation. He arranges a date with his predecessor in the loan out program but before he can meet her, she is viciously murdered in the Pentagon parking lot. Her sister Janet, also an attorney, comes to town and teams up with the major to try and find Lisa's killer. While working on a case for the law firm, he gathers some information from Lisa's computer that might lead to her killer and in the process gets the army, the FBI, the CIA and several corporate and criminal attorney's very angry at him for interfering in their business. Anyone who likes an action thriller won't want to miss reading PRIVATE SECTOR. The protagonist is unique and refreshing with a memorable sense of humor that will have the audience chuckling out loud in the middle of a very tense scene. He is not a rebel but he likes doing things his way and that always gets him in trouble with his superiors. Brian Haig has written a work that will return him to the bestseller lists. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Entertaining thirller, funny as well
Review: Previously, I had read Secret Sanction, and seem to recall enjoying that book. This title though, made me really enjoy the character of Sean Drummond. I've always been a fan of the characters Nelsom Demille created, and Sean Drummond reminded me a lot of those characters. I found myself laughing quite often at the off handed comments Drummond make throughout the book and thoroughly enjoyed the plot as well.
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Summary: The Best Book in the Drummond Series Thus Far
Review: PRIVATE SECTOR is the fourth of Brain Haig's novels to feature Major Sean Drummond, the redoubtable military lawyer whose presence in the Armed Forces seems to be the result of jamming an irresistible round peg into an immovable square-holed pegboard. Drummond is a smart aleck, and a brilliant one. Yet, his flip outward demeanor belies a tenacious attitude for righting wrongs and pursuing the truth, all the while steadfastly refusing to color within the lines. He would rather redraw them to fit the situation. Drummond accordingly seems a somewhat unlikely choice to be loaned out to a high-powered, buttoned-up Washington, D.C. law firm pursuant to a joint U.S. government private sector program called "Working With Industry." The loan out program seems well intentioned. The Army sends one of their best and brightest attorneys to the private law firm for one year in order to expose the attorney to other areas of practice, while the law firm gets another brilliant mind to work with. The results are darkly hilarious. Drummond is like a fish out of water almost from the minute he walks into the offices of Culper, Hutch, and Westin, and all the perks --- from the corner office to the company sports car --- can't make him walk the straight and narrow. Drummond figures that he can be just obnoxious enough to be sent back to the Army in a week or two. All of this changes, however, when Lisa Morrow is murdered. Morrow is Drummond's fellow JAG officer and his predecessor in the Working With Industry project. She is also the object of Drummond's love/lust interest. Drummond was to meet Morrow on the night she was murdered. He in fact carries some guilt over the murder, given that he was late for their meeting. His timeliness might have prevented her death. Drummond finds that the offices of Culper, Hutch, and Westin contain resources ideal for investigating Morrow's murder. Within days, however, more women are found slaughtered in apparently unrelated murders. Drummond slowly comes to the realization that the path of the murderer leads back to the doors of his private sector employer and the firm's biggest client, a communications firm on the verge of signing a contract with the Pentagon that has a potential value of billions of dollars. Drummond finds himself in a position where he can trust absolutely no one --- except for a rough-around-the-edges CID Agent named Dan Spinelli, with whom Drummond establishes a grudging camaraderie, and Morrow's sister Janet, a brilliant, capable and beautiful ADA from Boston. Drummond finds that in order to stop the murders and bring justice to Lisa Morrow, he will have to put himself --- and Janet --- in the path of mortal harm as they are pursued by a foe with apparently limitless resources and almost inhuman skill. Haig's decision to move Drummond into private practice, if only temporarily, is brilliant. Drummond is a fish out of water, even in his own sea, and letting him play with the sharks in the ocean of private practice gives Drummond plenty of room to exhibit his always rapier-sharp wit. Haig also veers away from courtroom drama here, another welcome variation from his previous novels. And for those of us who wondered if Drummond would ever become lucky in love ... well, that appears to be the case toward the end of the novel. The best book in what has proven to be an excellent series to date, PRIVATE SECTOR has it all. --- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub
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Summary: 4 1/2 stars
Review: See storyline above. When you read a Brian Haig novel you expect a fast-paced, gripping story that sometimes has graphic scenes, along with some quick witted dialogue from its sharp-tongued protagonist, Sean Drummond. This is indeed what you get.
I did kind of miss Imelda Pepperfield (she had a very small cameo). Highly recommended.
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Summary: Entertaining and fun
Review: Stellar voice performers John Rubinstein and Michael Emerson give can't-stop-listening-to readings of this thoroughly entertaining thriller. Happily, author Haig reprises his attractive but prickly hero Sean Drummond. An Army attorney Drummond seems to thrive on being a burr under anyone and everyone's saddle. He's loaned out to a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm where he proceeds to nettle and needle. There's not a one of his new compadres with whom he has anything in common, although the perks and office space are commendable. JAG officer Lisa Morrow is brutally killed. Murdered, in fact, when she's going to meet Drummond. He has barely begun investigating this crime when other professional women are murdered and Drummond realizes there's a psycho serial killer on the loose.
In addition, he is beginning to detect a foul odor emanating from the firm's most important client. Something is not only wrong - it's dead wrong. Soon the indefatigable Drummond finds himself in the middle of doings more heinous than any he has ever seen. A fast paced narrative and rapid fire action propel Haig's latest.
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Summary: A FAST PACED NARRATIVE
Review: Stellar voice performers John Rubinstein and Michael Emerson give can't-stop-listening-to readings of this thoroughly entertaining thriller. Happily, author Haig reprises his attractive but prickly hero Sean Drummond. An Army attorney Drummond seems to thrive on being a burr under anyone and everyone's saddle. He's loaned out to a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm where he proceeds to nettle and needle. There's not a one of his new compadres with whom he has anything in common, although the perks and office space are commendable. JAG officer Lisa Morrow is brutally killed. Murdered, in fact, when she's going to meet Drummond. He has barely begun investigating this crime when other professional women are murdered and Drummond realizes there's a psycho serial killer on the loose.
In addition, he is beginning to detect a foul odor emanating from the firm's most important client. Something is not only wrong - it's dead wrong. Soon the indefatigable Drummond finds himself in the middle of doings more heinous than any he has ever seen. A fast paced narrative and rapid fire action propel Haig's latest. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: Murder most foul and a sleuth with style
Review: There's a new star on the scene of the mystery/suspense genre: Brian Haig. I was suspicious at first of this brother of General Alexander Haig, thinking maybe Brian was taking advantage of easy celebrity. No way. Brian Haig proves his talent in Private Sector, written in an energetic, light-hearted style with a good dose of self-deprecating humor. Sean Drummond is perfectly happy as an Army Attorney, not particularly excited about participating in an attorney exchange program between the Army and the "Private Sector", assigned to a high profile, high-billing law firm. But Sean signed up to follow orders. As the fledgling member of the prestigious D.C. law firm, Sean wastes no time establishing his reputation as a bad boy, unconcerned with keeping this particular assignment. Clearly, Drummond has no love for this arrogant group, specialized litigators who cater to the most elite of Washington businessmen. Sean readily disdains the smooth talkers with their extravagant lifestyles and has no intention of fitting into this particular niche. Sean is baffled by the aura of menace that surfaces as soon as he begins to ask questions about his predecessor, a young woman recently found murdered. Naturally inquisitive, Drummond is especially interested, since he once dated the young woman. Any attempt on his part to uncover her activities at the firm before her death is met with a wall of silence, which, of course, only piques Sean's curiosity. He appears to spend his days cavorting through his duties in designer suits, driving a new Jaguar provided by the firm, but, in reality, he is intent on uncovering the circumstances that led to this strange death. Not one to be easily thwarted or intimidated, Drummond enlists the aid of a D.C .cop and an Assistant D.A., who also happens to be the sister of the murdered girl. Continuing his pursuit of inside information, Drummond uncovers a convoluted plot with serious implications of government interference. Then other young women are killed, each in a similar fashion, although with progressively more violence. The police request help from the FBI, assuming they are dealing with a serial killer, but there is far more involved than the apparent serial murders. As Sean and Janet delve deeper than is prudent, their actions put them both in imminent jeopardy. In Private Sector, Brian Haig serves up a volatile mix of sociopathic assassins, CIA operatives and FBI investigators, with frightening implications. A sly master of bluff and bravado, Haig's Sean Drummond is a sympathetic, even endearing, character, easy to like, imperfections and all. Oblivious to personal danger, Drummond stubbornly pursues the motive and the murderer, refusing to ignore conflicting motives that may impact his investigation. Take the infamous inter-agency conflicts between the CIA and the FBI, add a twisted plot with international criminal overtones and you have a nicely stylized mystery novel by a talented author. Haig knows how to tell a story. This young author is ensured a bright future, with his fresh voice and penchant for innovative plotting. Luan Gaines/ 2003.
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