{"id":21153,"date":"2025-09-18T19:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21153"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:51:31","slug":"foreclosure-by-s-d-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21153","title":{"rendered":"‘Foreclosure,’ by S. D. Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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She wiped her eyes, smudging more grime around her eyes. \u201cI remember when you started here out of law school. You seemed different than the others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI take that as a compliment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut you\u2019ve changed, David.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve grown up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She shook her head. \u201cYou\u2019re really just like them now. And they\u2019ll own you soon. Once you make partner, they\u2019ll own you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Browsing through my old reviews,<\/strong> I found one of my posts on the novels of S. D. Thames, all of which I had enjoyed quite a lot. I realized I hadn\u2019t read any of his books in a while, so I did a search on Amazon. Turned out he hasn\u2019t put out any more of his Milo Porter novels, but there was a stand-alone I hadn\u2019t read, from way back in 2015 \u2013 Foreclosure<\/a><\/em>. I read the book and it impressed me. Think John Grisham, but darker and grittier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Friedman is a tough, scrappy Jersey boy, fighting to make partner as a real estate lawyer with a big South Florida firm. As the book begins, he\u2019s furious at being denied a promised partnership. It\u2019s the bad economy, his bosses say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one of them offers him a deal \u2013 acquire real estate developer Frank O\u2019Reilly as a client. O\u2019Reilly is facing big litigation over a condominium foreclosure, and if David can bring him in and win the case by the end of the year (2007), he\u2019ll get his partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Frank O\u2019Reilly is the slimiest developer in all of Florida (which is saying a lot), crude and corrupt and cruel-minded. But David knows he can deal with that. If he has to make some ethical compromises, tell a few lies, even ruin a few lives, that\u2019s all part of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he has no idea what this case will cost him, nor how close it\u2019ll bring him to losing not only his career, but his very life. Not to mention his soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreclosure <\/em>is a Christian novel, but of the better sort \u2013 better than my novels in the sense that the Christian message is implied, not baldly spelled out. It is, sadly, the kind of book that often fails to please the Christian audience, due to frank language and dark topics. The kind of book Andrew Klavan is writing today, with greater success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assume that Foreclosure <\/em>didn\u2019t sell well, because author S. D. Thames seems to have switched to the light Milo Porter series, and doesn\u2019t seem to have done any publishing at all since before 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope he\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, Foreclosure <\/em>is an excellent legal thriller for the mature reader. There are occasional rough spots in the writing, but overall I liked it a lot, and recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She wiped her eyes, smudging more grime around her eyes. \u201cI remember when you started here out of law school. You seemed different than the others.\u201d \u201cI take that as a compliment.\u201d \u201cBut you\u2019ve changed, David.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve grown up.\u201d She shook her head. \u201cYou\u2019re really just like them now. And they\u2019ll own you soon. Once … Continue reading ‘Foreclosure,’ by S. D. Thames<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[5711,2452],"class_list":["post-21153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-foreclosure","tag-s-d-thames"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21156,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions\/21156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}