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Veritas (aka Bitter Truth) (Victor Carl, Bk 2)
Veritas - aka Bitter Truth - Victor Carl, Bk 2
Author: William Lashner
"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing." -- Albert Camus — "I suppose every hundred million dollars has its own sordid story and the hundred million I am chasing is no exception..." So begins Veritas, William Lashner's riveting follow-up to his bestselling debut novel, Hostile W...  more » Victor Carl -- lawyer, loser, hapless hero of Hostile Witness, and a Philadelphian way out of his element -- has come to the sweat-drenched jungles of Berize to chase his fortune. Finding it is something else entirely.

Coerced into defending an unpleasant parade of mob enforcers, two-bit hoods, and other Philadelphian riffraff, Carl wants out of his shabby, squalid life more than ever. So when a terrified young woman offers Carl an unusual -- but substantial -- proposition, he leaps at the opportunity to trade in his grubby existence for a life of wealthy excess.

The job -- proving that the recent suicide of wealthy Philadelphian heiress Jacqueline Shaw was not a suicide at all but murder -- plunges Carl into an eerie shadow world, where events buried deep in the past exert an awful weight in the present, a world of overturned gravesites, gruesome secrets, and a haunted, lonely estate that houses the broken and dying heirs of a once-powerful family.

Simultaneously caught up in an exploding mob war and the machinations of an avaricious cult, Carl realizes too late that he's in way over his head, as he races against time to collect his fee and get out alive. As Carl edges closer to the truth, a truth that is concealed in the mists of a bygone era and now awaits him in the rainforests of Belize, he learns firsthand that the most terrifying darkness crouches not in the heart of the jungle surrounding him but in the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
ISBN-13: 9780006496342
ISBN-10: 0006496342
Publication Date: 1998
Pages: 592
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Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Type: Paperback
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 ccwriter avatar reviewed Veritas (aka Bitter Truth) (Victor Carl, Bk 2) on + 186 more book reviews
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I really like Lashner's books, and recommend reading them in order. His protagonist, Victor Carl, is a MOST unusual lawyer and to appreciate where he is in his life in later books, you really need to start with "Hostile Witness" to find out how he got there.

Don't get confused -- this is the SECOND book, which was republished as "Bitter Truth," which I already had. (The words "originally published as Veritas" are SO TINY on the front cover that they are truly illegible w/out a magnifying glass!
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Mom lawyer hired by innocent. Scary story, suspenseful, entertaining.
reviewed Veritas (aka Bitter Truth) (Victor Carl, Bk 2) on + 11 more book reviews
I find Victor Carl - lawyer, loser, and hapless hero of all of Lashner's books highly entertaining. If you like your heros to have clay feet you will love carl.
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A good look into the lives of wealth.


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