Review: Franz Kafkas "The Trial"  in real time for a lawyer?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2013
I found this refreshingly dry, droll and elusive book a brilliant study into what must be described as a most unusual law practice, alarmingly difficult to put down. The concept of having an anonymous client, and the intricacies that such a person imposes on those who believe they are that persons lawyer, eventually come to life in a well scripted court room drama, where, that which a lawyer most needs to know, i.e. who his client is and what that clients instructions are, emerge from the extremely tense drama of marital misfeasance, unexpected deaths, and even more unexpected deaths when the private eye who is also the lawyer, is put in ethically impossible positions by his adversary's and the court make for exquisite reading for a lawyer who must have an extraordinary and detailed knowledge of the law of legal professional privilege and 'client ' confidentiality (very hard if your client is anonymous). It has the usual completely unexpected conclusion: a rare book well worth the read by lovers of really good crime fiction.