Bodily Harm

Written by Robert Dugoni

Narrated by Dan John Miller

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROBERT DUGONI RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING STORY OF CORPORATE GREED, ESPIONAGE, AND THE LENGTHS ONE MAN IS WILLING TO GO FOR JUSTICE.

Bodily Harm opens with a big win for David Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, in a malpractice case centered on the death of a young child. But on the heels of this seeming victory, an unlikely character—toy designer Kyle Horgan— comes forward to tell Sloane that he's gotten it all wrong: Horgan's the one who's truly responsible for the little boy's death and possibly others—not the pediatrician Sloane has just proven guilty.

Ordinarily, Sloane might have dismissed such a person as a crackpot, but something about this case has always troubled him—something that he couldn't quite pinpoint. When Sloane tries to follow up with Horgan, he finds the man's apartment a shambles— ransacked by unknown perpetrators. Horgan has vanished without a trace. Together with his longtime investigative partner Charles Jenkins, Sloane reexamines his clients' son's death and digs deeper into Horgan's claims, forcing him to enter the billion-dollar, cutthroat toy industry. As Sloane gets closer to the truth, he trips a wire that leads to a shocking chain of events that nearly destroys him.

To get to the bottom of it all and find justice for the families harmed, Sloane must keep in check his overwhelming desire for revenge. Full of nail-bitingly tense action scenes as well as edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama, Bodily Harm finds Robert Dugoni at the very top of his game.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: May 25, 2010
• ISBN: 9781423387404

Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series, which has sold more than four million books worldwide. He is also the author of the bestselling David Sloane series; the Charles Jenkins series including The Eighth Sister, the stand-alone novels The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, for which he won an AudioFile Earphones Award for the narration; and the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post best book of the year. He is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction and the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He is a two-time finalist for the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. His books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Visit his website at www.robertdugoni.com.

Reviews for Bodily Harm

[Betty Bennett · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a thriller that is so realistic that I truly believed it was historical. The characters are believable, the dialogue is crisp, the action scenes are consistent with the story line, and the scenery is well described.

[Chester Kleinot · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dan John Miller's narration is so good you will think you are listening to a cast of readers. His ability to instantly change his voice to the character speaking was simply amazing. It really made for an enjoyable listening experience to this story by Robert Dugoni. This was my first Dugoni book and I really enjoyed it.

[buffalogr · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A good mystery...focusing on the toy industry. Side car issue is the family drama. The two stories transition nicely between one and the other. The first story line is about correcting a wrong, which (if we're not psychotic) hits us all where we feel it. The reader will find a smooth, well written, thriller that moves along with action and suspense.

[techeditor_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

BODILY HARM is a book in Robert Dugoni’s David Sloane series. I’ve read other books in this series, but I haven’t read any of them in order. So I went backwards to read this one. But the mark of a good series is when any one book does not depend on another; it can be read as a standalone. And BODILY HARM, as with the other books in this series, can stand alone.Sloane is a lawyer, and this book is a legal thriller. He is dealing with two cases here. One is a custody issue; he wants to adopt his wife’s son. The other begins with the end of another case, which he won. Now he discovers that he shouldn’t have.The latter case is involved with twists and turns that make it a satisfying mystery and thriller. I’m not easy to satisfy, so don’t take this as blasé. I’m impressed.Yet, Dugoni has neglected the Sloane series since, I believe, 2012, in favor of his Tracy Crosswhite series even though the Sloane series is so much better. Dugoni should give Crosswhite a rest and return to Sloane. I want a comeback.

[carol420 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A toy company has a toy that every child would want. Unfortunately it isn't all they thought it was and what it is they felt was worth killing to protect. Sloan is the attorney for the parents but he also has some major problems in his own life. Everything is rapidly coming to a head and there will only be one winner. There were a lot of characters to keep up with and sort out and the custody battle at the end was a bit abrupt but overall it was very entertaining.

[bohemiangirl35 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

David Sloane is on his way to receive the verdict in his most recent malpractice case when Kyle Horgan approaches him claiming that Sloane has prosecuted the wrong man and that he is responsible for the child's death. Sloane gives Horgan the brush off but later is convinced that Horgan might be right. When Sloane looks for him, Horgan has disappeared. Sloane's investigation leads him into the world of toy espionage and cut throat business practices to increase profits at the expense of safety and quality products.

[teeth_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This novel was agreat mystery with a legal flavour thrown in. David Sloan, an attorney is investigating a toy comapny when 2 children die of sepsis. There are many twists and turnsand the end was very surprising. it isnt often that i cry at the end of a suspense book but this book has a very good human element to it.

[beckyjg · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

David Sloane, the lawyer-who-never-loses, has just brought to completion a medical malpractice suit against a local Seattle pediatrician for the wrongful death of a six-year-old boy. Just as he's rushing into the courthouse to hear the verdict, however, he's stopped in the street by an unkempt, grungy twenty-something kid who thrusts a folder at him and tells him, "The doctor did not kill that boy...I did." With no reason to take the young man seriously, and no time to do so even if he did, Sloane rushes into court to receive yet another winning verdict. Mere pages later we're thrust into the cutthroat world of the toy industry. Kendall Toys of Seattle has a new CEO, who has been recently annointed by the dying Sebastian Kendall, last of the toy dynasty's blood line. Malcolm Fitzgerald is up against a board in turmoil, cash flow problems, and a buy out offer from a rival toy firm. Luckily, he has an ace: Metamorphis, an amazing toy that trumps Transformers by allowing the child to design and execute the toy's transformations. Fitzgerald thinks Kendall has found, in Metamorphis, its holy grail, its Tickle Me Elmo, its Cabbage Patch Kid, the toy which--if they can get it into production quickly enough and price it just right--will be the one that has the kids clamoring and the parents scrambling to buy this holiday season. But there have been problems with the prototype, and in order to make the toy cheaply enough to price it affordably production has been farmed overseas, to the unregulated factories of China. Robert Dugoni has been honing his skills with his previous three novels, and with Bodily Harm has become a true master of the legal thriller. His pacing is perfect, fast enough to keep the reader on the edge of the seat, but still thoughtful and intelligent. The courtroom scenes are believable--and there aren't overly many of them. His characters are well-developed, and even the secondary characters are believable and sympathetic, and we read breathlessly as the several different plotlines--including Sloane's moving personal story--come together for a satisfying resolution.