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    The Substitution Order
    The Substitution Order
    The Substitution Order
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Substitution Order

    Written by Martin Clark

    Narrated by David Aaron Baker

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    From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wickedly clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer's refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists conspire against him. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after an inexplicably tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash and looking for work, he lands in the middle of nowhere with a job at SUBstitution, the world's saddest sandwich shop. His closest confidants: a rambunctious rescue puppy and the twenty-year-old computer whiz manning the restaurant counter beside him. He's determined to set his life right again, but the troubles keep coming. And when a bizarre, mysterious stranger wanders into the shop armed with a threatening "invitation" to join a multimillion-dollar scam, Kevin will need every bit of his legal savvy just to stay out of prison. A remarkable tour of the law's tricks and hidden trapdoors, The Substitution Order is both wise and ingenious, a wildly entertaining novel that will keep you guessing--and rooting for its tenacious hero--until the very last page.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 9, 2019
    ISBN9781980038450
    The Substitution Order
    Author

    Martin Clark

    Martin Clark is a retired Virginia circuit court judge, who served twenty-seven years on the bench. His novels have appeared on numerous bestseller lists and have been chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year, a Bookmarks magazine Best Book of the Year, a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award, and the winner of the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award in 2009, 2016 and 2020. Martin received the Patrick County Outstanding Community Service Award in 2016 and the Virginia State Bar’s Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Award in 2018. He and his wife, Deana, live on a farm with dogs, cats, chickens and three donkeys.

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    • 5/5
      omg! Loved it. Stayed up all night to finish it. Wow!
    • 5/5
      I just finished The Substitution Order this weekend. While the genre is not one I read a lot, I really enjoy Martin Clark's writing style. I genuinely care about his characters. That's always been important to me in any narrative.

      Kevin Moore has messed his life up in a big way. But being a decent man, he's doing all he can to put things back together. His efforts are thwarted by an unlikely and mysterious stranger who turns up and offers him a deal many people would not refuse. In spite of Kevin's foibles and past mistakes, he is a man who knows exactly where his moral compass points and fraud and perjury don't fall in that direction. The story tells how Kevin, a brilliant lawyer, deals with the twists and turns thrown his way because of his refusal take up the offer.

      Like all Clark's books, this one is satisfying because it's a pleasure to read about clever people accomplishing amazing things. The characters are believable. Parts of the book, like the scene where two gentlemen who enter the restaurant in Civil War garb, made me laugh out loud. I like that I've never found his endings to be predictable. Another important element his books share is a sense of decency. It's not enough that the story is good and well-written. I always finish Martin Clark's books happy that good triumphs--especially when that good takes an unexpected form.

      I highly recommend it!

    • 4/5
      A pretty nifty tale. Nice turnaround for the protagonist in the end!
    • 3/5
      The story took much too long to unfold and rather than building suspense, built tedium.