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Blind Eye: A Benjamin Justice Novel


by John Morgan Wilson

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Sales Rank: 878370
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 01, 2003
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur


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At thirty-two, Benjamin Justice was one of Los Angeles best known journalists. He had the respect and envy of his colleagues, the admiration of his employers and the ear of the city's population. Until he won the Pulitzer Prize for one of his features and everything came crashing down. Found to have invented the subjects of his piece, Justice was forced to return the Pulitzer, was fired from his job, and became a pariah to most of his former colleagues.

Now in his mid-forties, still considered a disgrace to his former profession, HIV-positive, and once again single, Justice has once again begun to put his life back together. Under contract to a major publisher to write his autobiography, Benjamin Justice is trying to put all the elements of his life into perspective for the first time. While searching out a priest from his childhood, Justice enlists his closest friend's fiancé - a columnist for the Los Angeles Times - to bring pressure upon the powers that be to reveal the long-hidden truth about this almost forgotten priest. Then his friend's fiancé is killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident and Justice is called upon to look into the mysterious circumstances of the too-convenient accident. Reluctant at first, Justice soon finds himself in the midst of a complex case involving a decades old child murder, a powerful and controversial Cardinal, and elements of his own dark past.

John Morgan Wilson's Edgar and Lambda Literary Award winning Benjamin Justice novels are amongst the most highly regarded and widely praised crime fiction to have emerged in the past decade. Now, in Blind Eye, Benjamin Justice returns in the most compelling and controversial novel yet in this not-to-be missed series.


CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 12 reviews)

John Morgan Wilson scores again!  
Another first rate thriller from John Morgan Wilson in the Benjamin Justice series......This novel involves intrique with the Catholic Church and was a page turner from start to finish...highly reccomend!
February 22, 2007

The best of his first five; and excellent series  
I discovered John Morgan Wilson several months ago through a magazine article. Thank heaven I saw it.
He's in my top 3 fiction writers, with Elizabeth George and James Lee Burke.
This novel is incredibly powerful, full of good emotion, drama and characterization. Like most of Wilson's books, the ending is no surprise. These are not really mysteries, for the tales are more about ethics, morality, rage, the impact of personal history on present day actions and more.
No one escapes a critical eye here - the gay community, Catholic church, the police, and more. But there is balance, veracity, and believeability.
Elizabeth George is unbeatable at character development and Burke at developing sense of place, but Wilson puts together great characterization, story lines and drama to suck you into the world of his novels. It's books like this one that reveal how far Wilson's craft has come to rise over that of Sue Grafton and other best sellers.
This particular book of Wilson's easily makes my top 5 favorites of all time.
Read them all from in order of publication.
Paul
June 23, 2006

My Favorite Justice Novel to Date  
Whenever I'm asked who my favorite authors are, John Morgan Wilson is consistently in the top three. And Blind Eye is a great example of why. I am woefully behind in this series, and only recently completed Blind Eye. JMW is a beautiful writer and his portrayal of a man possessed by a legion of personal demons is realistic and remarkable. I may not want to have dinner with Benjamin Justice, but I feel such empathy for him and root for him every step of the way. The portrayal of Justice's best friend, Alexandria Templeton, is just as well drawn and she is a great character worthy of her own series. The Benjamin Justice series may be too gritty for some, but the elegant writing and the gut wrenching humanity of the characters make every page worthwhile.
May 02, 2006

Really over the top  
This latest book by John Morgan Wilson manages to be extremely timely, relevant and although, written with his usual skill, quite unbelievable. Wilson's protagonist, Benjamin Justice, is in the process of writing his memoirs and while delving into his past and searching for information about the priest who sexually abused him as a child, he starts upon a series of catastrophes and mayhem.

First, his best friend's fiancé is assassinated; though in the beginning his death is considered an accident. There is a hired assassin and skullduggery and corruption in the highest echelons of the Catholic Church. The story proceeds pell-mell to a quite unbelievable conclusion.

As always, Wilson imbues Justice with depth and humanity and compassion and his friends and neighbors are delightful and entertaining. But unfortunately, this foray by Justice is just a little too much over the top. Hopefully, his next adventure will return to some semblance of reality
March 29, 2005

Darkest of a dark series  
So if I stayed up until 3:00 a.m. to finish this, does that mean it's a good book? Yes, it certainly is.

This is a Benjamin Justice novel, and Ben is going through his usual angst. He's broken up with his last partner, and is coping with his HIV meds, while trying to write his autobiography. He decides that he needs to track down the whereabouts of the priest who molested him when he was twelve years old. Though he discovers the man has since died, he also discovers that there were more victims. Then a reporter who is helping his investigate, and who writes a column about priest molestations, is murdered, and it looks like the Archdiocese, which tries to bribe Justice into silence about the priest, itself may be involved.

With Wilson, there is no black-and-white, only shades of grey. Even a vicious killer's back story hints at some reasons for sympathy. Justice struggles with his history, feeling guilt for things he did (and didn't do) as a child that are affecting the present. In what will surely offend some people, pure evil here is confined to the hierarchy of the Catholic church. It is not only the molestations and the cover-ups, which could be taken from any headline, but the total lack of empathy and caring, the hypocrisy, that makes these men evil. This is one of the darkest of a dark series.

And well worth reading.

November 29, 2004


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