The Jury Series: Four Complete Novels - Paperback

by Lee Goldberg (Author)

From Lee Goldberg, the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of Malibu Burning, True Fiction, The Walk, and Lost Hills, comes **all four** of his acclaimed JURY SERIES novels...collected into one mega-sized, pulse-pounding, thrill-ride that will leave you breathless!

JUDGMENT * ADJOURNED * PAYBACK * GUILTY The complete saga of Brett Macklin, a one-man judge, jury, and executioner, fighting a war on terror on the streets of Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Over 160,000 words/550 pages of non-stop action, wildly erotic sex, and wicked humor. This is a brand new edition for 2024

"As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort [...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year!" West Coast Review of Books

The series, published in 1985, under the title 357 Vigilante was written by "Ian Ludlow"... a pseudonym for Lee Goldberg, who wrote the books while he was still a teenage UCLA student, under the supervision of his professor, novelist Lewis Perdue (The DaVinci Legacy, The Queensgate Reckoning, Daughter of God etc).

Goldberg would later go on to write and/or produce such TV shows as Monk, Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and The Glades co-create the hit Hallmark Mystery movie series Mystery 101 and write many more novels, including fifteen best-selling "Monk" mysteries, five internationally bestselling "Fox & O'Hare" novels co-authored with Janet Evanovich, and in a nod to THE JURY SERIES, the "Ian Ludlow Thriller" trilogy: True Fiction, Killer Thriller, and Fake Truth. He is also the author of the five novels in the "Eve Ronin" series and the thriller Calico.

A SAMPLING OF THE CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LEE GOLDBERG:

"A high-octane mystery that moves like a bullet-train!" Janet Evanovich

"Can books be better than television? You bet they can -- when Lee Goldberg's writing them," Lee Child

"Leaves you guessing right up until the heart-stopping ending," Lisa Gardner

"Lee Goldberg can plot and write with the best of them," Mystery Scene Magazine

"If great pacing with awesome characters is what keeps you up at night, then make a pot of coffee and open this book." Crimespree

"Grabs you from page one with brilliant wit, sharply honed suspense, and a huge helping of pure originality." -Jeffery Deaver

"A delight from start to finish, a round-the-world, thrill-a-minute, laser-guided missile of a book." -Joseph Finder

"An action-packed treasure filled with intrigue, engaging characters, and exciting, well-rendered locales. With Goldberg's hyper-clever plotting, dialogue, and wit on every page, readers are in for a blast with this one!" -Mark Greaney

"Entertaining and ruefully funny," Honolulu Star Bulletin

"Harrowing and funny..." -Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

"With books this good, who needs TV?" Chicago Sun Times

"Lee is one of my favorite writers for so many reasons--plotting, character, or his incredible sense of humor. Suffice to say that Goldberg is one infinitely readable master of crime fiction." -Craig Johnson

"You'd be hard-pressed to find another recent work that provides so many hip and humorous moments," Bookgasm

Author Biography

The series, published in 1985, under the title ".357 Vigilante," was written by Ian Ludlow... a pseudonym for Lee Goldberg, who wrote the books while he was a UCLA student under the supervision of his professor, novelist Lewis Perdue ("The DaVinci Legacy," "The Queensgate Reckoning," "Daughter of God," etc). Goldberg would later go on to write and/or produce such TV shows as "Monk," "Diagnosis Murder," "SeaQuest," and "The Glades" and many more novels, including THE WALK, KING CITY, and the best-selling "Monk" series of original mysteries.