The Big Cut

Rating:
Summary: Worthy first effort
Review: Aaron Golub is clearly on the inside "know" of the New York court system. "The Big Cut" features PI/high power attorney, Johnny Ocean. Johnny handles cases for the rich who prefer to remain annonymous. He's a flashy guy who knows his way round a tort. K, Johnny's sikh houseman and part-time assistant is a fascinating character in his own right. When Johnny is handed a case in which he represents a mysterious woman named Pandora who's being sued for the payment of her dead husbands debt of $170 million by her sister-in-law he's in for more toil and trouble than he bargains for. He's shot, seduced, and lied to. But he's determined to get to the bottom of it. This is a great first effort on Golub's part. Hopefully, we'll see more of Johnny Ocean and K.

Rating:
Summary: Mindbending and Spellbinding!!!!
Review: Before the Big Cut, thrillers were just thrilling. Golub's novel is scary, sexy and has plot with more wrinkles than a shar-pei. What's next Johnny Ocean?

Rating:
Summary: Mindbending and Spellbinding!!!
Review: Before The Big Cut, thrillers were just thrilling. Golub's novel is sexy, scary, and has a plot with more wrinkles than a shar-pei. What's next Johnny Ocean?

Rating:
Summary: promising, but ultimately very average
Review: I thought the novel started well and it had me hooked from the start. However, I began to lose interest about 2/3 of the way through. It just became difficult to identify with the characters. Character development was poor.

Rating:
Summary: Mindbending and Spellbinding!!!
Review: Mr Golub should keep his day job. For the first time in years I put down a book in mid-read.

It is derivative drivel But he does borrow widely. We have Kato the butler, played by "K" the Sikh butler. We have Asta the terrier, played by Barkis the Rottweiler. We have an Oriental vamp out of the James Bond series, played by "Y", the Chinese temptress. We have scenes from Blue Velver played out in a restaurant called The Black Curtain. We have a cliche Italian mob lawyer, with a judge in his pocket played by.... hold on now....a guy named Vito Bellicoso.

The protagonist's antagonist is a teenager's ...... dream called Pandora, and, you got it, he can't wait to get into her box -- although I am being far more suble than his fantasies, spelled out in Cosmopolitan-style breathlessnes

If you want to liven up a party, buy the book, and take turns reading aloud from it. I can't give away the ending because I never got there.