Previously published as The Cross Examination of Oliver Finney. When a brilliant billionaire is diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, he realizes that all his considerable wealth cannot prepare him to meet his Maker. But he has an idea that might: he will stage the ultimate reality show. With his true agenda hidden, he auditions followers from all the world’s major religions, inviting them to the trial of their lives on a remote island, where they must defend their beliefs against spiritual challenges.
Oliver Finney, a feisty old judge with his own secrets, is chosen to defend Christianity. As the program takes a strange twist, he quickly realizes he is trapped in a game of deadly agendas that may cost him his life. With Internet access monitored, Finney sends coded messages to his law clerk, Nikki Moreno. Aided by a teen crypto-geek, Nikki soon discovers the key to understanding Finney’s clues in an apologetics book Finney wrote and must race against time to decipher the mysteries contained in the ancient words of Christ before her boss dies defending them.
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 0/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
From: Isaac
Book Title: The Judge
Book Author: Randy Singer
What do you like about this book:
Being a big fan of Singer’s work, I found myself wanting to like this book. But in reality, I found it mediocre. However interesting, the story was slow and without suspense and left the reader deprived of the true Randy Singer. Not his best.
Sexual Content: Not much. A woman thinks that she can get whatever she wishes just displaying her legs to any and every man who so happens to be walking by. In order to get information, a participant in the show is willing to take trips to a producers apartment, pretending to have a relationship. What takes place on those occasions is never described.
Violence: In gunfights, people are shot and killed, leaving others wounded. There is little blood. A toaster is dropped into an elderly man's bathtub, killing him instantly.
Language: None that I can recall.
Drug/Alcohol: At parties, people drink and whoop in bars, clearly drunk.
Your ratings of the level of sex, violence, language and drug/alcohol use on a scale of 1-5.
Sex:1
Violence:2
Language:0
Drug/Alcohol use:1