Cleans Hands has a thrilling plot but, with the exception of Valencia, fairly thin characters. The twists and turns are very enjoyable and Valencia is a great female version of the typically male protagonist, but there are some loose threads.
Cleans Hands has a thrilling plot but, with the exception of Valencia, fairly thin characters. The twists and turns are very enjoyable and Valencia is a great female version of the typically male protagonist, but there are some loose threads.
Someone compared Clean Hands to Michael Clayton, so I was instantly in
What a start to the new year! A missing phone, a high profile lawsuit, some serious spy craft, a cast of increasingly unsavory characters and New York. What‘s not to love.
I kept pushing this hold back, but as I only have a few more days until the end of the year, and I‘ve seen it on a few best of lists, I‘m giving it a go.
When a junior member of a firm loses his phone when a person bumps into him important documents on it are compromised.
Lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is at her wits end and in desperation enlists the help of Valencia Walker an ex officer with the CIA.
But already the files have been moved on and copied, passed on so that the company can be blackmailed.
Corporate blackmail at its finest.
But the girls are racing against the clock for very high stakes!
Elizabeth Carlyle is a high corporate lawyer.
But her world comes crashing down when a junior colleague "loses" his phone containing very important documents.
She calls in Valencia Walker, an ex CIA officer who acts as a "fixer" to solve the problem quickly and cleanly with no fuss.
But the problem is that the documents have already been copied and passed down the line thereby leading the firm into blackmail.
Cam Valencia sort it in time?