This book shows Steve Cavanagh's growth as a writer and his passion to write about the death penalty, corruption, white supremacy, and how innocent men and women can be sent to jail and to death. Frightening stuff and very difficult to read at times. In what is Eddie's toughest case, he faces a formidable foe in the shape of the powerful District Attorney Randal Korn, a man who goes for the death penalty in all his cases, and his success rate is unsurpassed in the country, he has never lost. The sinister Korn, reeking of death and decay, doesn't care how he wins his cases, by fair means or foul, nor whether the defendant is innocent and he is aided and abetted by the corrupt local law enforcement department, run by Sheriff Colt Lomax. Eddie doesn't go in blind to the dangers he is walking into, Andy's previous lawyer, Cody Warren has gone missing, along with critical evidence that would have proved his client's innocence. Eddie and his team face hostility from locals convinced of Andy's guilt, but there are greater threats, a greater evil and malevolence at play that lies at the heart of why Skylar was murdered. Past Saturn Award Recipients". Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. Archived from the original on July 4, 2021 . Retrieved August 17, 2017. What isn’t alive and well are the many men convicted of crimes, here, by its prosecutor, Randal Korn. The Devil’s Advocate makes your palms sweat and your blood run cold; the terrific trial scenes out-Grisham John Grisham.’ The Times

I expected so much more from this book. What this book has is anecdotes which are poorly woven into a book. Thapar says the Rajiv Gandhi was the one who encouraged him to return to India for good and then set him up. He has only good things to talk about the Gandhi family. But, surprisingly he is quiet about the current scion and the queen mother of the Congress Party. But it is obvious as to where his loyalties lie.He is frank enough about his privilege and how it helped his education and career (to put it mildly), even if he is not apologetic about it. I think it may be overlooked for the greater good of letting the reader into the life of privileged classes. I must admit though, the indiscriminate name dropping, added to the extremely inoculated life described in the book, did make Karan a fallen angel in my eyes (Though I still admire him for his thorough research, glib manner of speaking, and his relentless persistence to get an answer from the interviewee).

This case, imo, was the toughest case Eddie has ever had and he has to give his best and put on his favourite suit to prove Andy not guilty. It is obvious that Thapar is very well connected. He claims that he was the go between in organizing clandestine meetings between the Pakistan High Commissioner and Advani, which finally culminated in the unsuccessful Indo-Pak summit that happened in Agra. The film won the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. [68] Pacino was also nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain. [69]Biased approach towards interviews: Benazir Bhutto and Karan Thapar became friends when they became Presidents of Student Unions at Oxford and Cambridge, respectively. Later when she became the Prime Minister of Pakistan, he quoted this about the unique problem he faced while taking her interviews:

ive never been so furious with a story before. and i understand that thats the point - books should make you feel something, especially when racism, white supremacy, and police corruption are still such on-going problems to this day. but when a story puts me in an incurable bad mood for hours after finishing the book, is that really a good reading experience? Oh and the chapter on Cross-examination is a real treasure trove for any newcomer to legal advocacy (of course, I can't speak for any old timer, as I am largely a sapling, but I suppose it'd be at the very least a pleasant read for such a one). I've read that chapter more times than I've read any other chapter in the book. Come to think of it, I haven't touched my copy in months, I'm already itching for a reread. When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something.”

Amongst the other high profile interviewees that Thapar had interacted with, he mentions about Barak Obama, Amal Clooney, Jayalalithaa and Narendra Modi. Thapar says that he was disillusioned with both Obama and Amal Clooney because both of them were insistent on knowing as to what he was going to question them on. Thapar finds it really odd that a former American President, whose claim to fame was that he had led the free world, was so paranoid about his public image that he wanted to weed out all possible uncomfortable questions. The same was the case of Amal Clooney who claims to be a human rights activist. She was so worried about the questions that she was going to come up against. So much for the hypocrisy of the so called celebrities of this age. Find CinemaScore" (Type "Devil's Advocate" in the search box). CinemaScore. Archived from the original on January 2, 2018 . Retrieved July 10, 2020. Fry, Carrol Lee (2008). Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press. ISBN 978-0-93422395-9. a b c d e Brennan, Judy (November 27, 1996). "On Pacino Film, They're Having Devil of a Time". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 9, 2014 . Retrieved August 18, 2017.