Before you start the first sentence of The Absence of Justice by Millicent Y Hodge, I stronggly suggest yu make sure you will not be interrupted. Why? You may ask. Because from the first sentence to the last you will experience a literary masterpiece that you will cause you to seek out others that read it just so you can discuss it. You will run every range of emotions and (If like me you yell out warnings to movie screens - LOL) you will find yourself wanting to be a character just so you can help out the protagonist. This is a phenomenal book with the kinds of twists and turns one would expect to feels while driving in the Indy 500. Sidney Cox is a corporate attorney with a past. The concept ( from The Tempest by William Shakespeare - one of my favorites) What is past is prologue is challenged from beginning to end. When the United States Attorney General is killed, Ms. Cox finds herself trapped in the middle of treasonous acts, murders, high speed chases and lechery spun so out of control that one can't figure out Sidney can possibly survive her search for justice. I give Millicent Y Hodge a standing ovation in one of the best written suspense novels to be found in even the most complete collections in any library. Every character will be suspect and you absolutely will not figure out what is coming next from one page to the next. She includes so many levels of both goodness and evil that I dare you to put this book down before you have reached the end. I will be buying her other three books - Abuse of Power isbn 1413411576 Art of Retribution isbn 1413411592 and Act of Vengeance isbn 1413431720. I pray that by the time I am finished reading Ms. Hodges' other books, she will have released yet another. Reviewer Silver Fox |
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