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Editor: Kevin Flynn
Profession: Author - Relentless Pursuit

Category: Reviews

In its March 4, 2007 edition, in a review entitled, "PROSECUTOR REVISITS D.C. TRIAL IN VIVID LEGAL THRILLER,"
THe Washington Times published its unqualified endorsement of Relentless Pursuit:

"Mr. Flynn ... writes with an unremitting emphasis on hard fact that makes his account not just a page-turner but an eye-opener as well. Mr. Flynn tells the story with a vivid attention to detail that would be quite difficult for a novelist to match ... Mr. Flynn's disturbingly real portrait of 1990s D.C. street culture, and of the immense efforts required to do justice in just one case, generates and sustains intense interest in the outcome of criminal investigation -- an outcome that is genuinely in doubt throughout the book just as it was throughout the trial. But many readers will find even more to like in the way Mr. Flynn attends to the convergence of so many seemingly independent lives."

The Washington Timers review goes on:

"Mr. Flynn lavishes most of his attention on the victims' extended family, a large, multigenerational source of strength and solace not just for each other but for Mr. Flynn. One expects a prosecutor in Mr. Flynn's position to feel a sense of the family's dependence on him for seeing justice done, and he is explicit about the pressure he felt. But one of the most arresting passages tells how Mr. Flynn walked into a meeting of this clan thinking he was fighting for them, and found himself unexpectedly becoming the object of the family's spiritual support."

The review concludes:

"Prosecutors as a group may well have more war stories per capita than any other segment of the population, and I suspect -- certainly I hope -- that most prosecutors know in their bones much of what Mr. Flynn has to say here. It is rather the general reader who will likely profit most from "Relentless Pursuit," the reader who has not seen criminality close enough to appreciate its ordinariness, the reader who has perhaps read too many gripping crime novels or watched too many cop shows on television. Any such reader who picks up "Relentless Pursuit" will be rewarded with a great story, to be sure, but also with a fascinating window into this darkest of places in human nature."

To read the full Washington Times review of Relentless Pursuit, click here.