# Rating: PG-13
# Studio: Sony Pictures
# DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
# Run Time: 110 minutes
In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his Afro-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a safe compound. The racist and dysfunctional next door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner that feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives in Hell on Earth. source.
Decent rental, not great, but decent.
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IMPACTNO. 1 BESTSELLING HARDBOILED MYSTERYA Jetliner Crashes in the Everglades.
A Billion-Dollar Lawsuit: Negligence or Terrorism?
The Defense: Kill Anyone, Even a Supreme Court Justice, to Win the Case.
Supreme Court Justice Sam Truitt takes the bench with high ideals, lofty intentions...and a troubled marriage. Lisa Fremont, his stunning and brilliant law clerk, has a dark secret in her past. If Lisa doesn't get Truitt's vote in multi-million dollar case involving a catastrophic airplane crash, she'll be killed. The Justice, too. IMPACT is a tale of seduction and betrayal, of passion and greed. Truitt, who has always followed the rules, and Lisa, who never has, join together to battle those who live by no law at all.
IMPACT, published in hardcover as "9 Scorpions," was the inspiration for "First Monday," the television drama starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna.
WHAT'S THE VERDICT ON PAUL LEVINE'S IMPACT?
"A relentlessly entertaining summer read." - New York Daily News
"A breakout book, highly readable and fun." - USA Today
"A big brash blend of violence, sex, and the Supreme Court." - The Miami Herald
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author of 14 novels, Paul Levine has won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG" and co-created the Supreme Court drama "First Monday" starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. He is also the author of the "Solomon vs. Lord" series and the thriller "Illegal." His next novel will be "Lassiter," due in hardcover (and as a digital book) in September 2011. More information at paul-levine.com
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