Wow.  The Holdout is a serious examination of the politics of law, social impact of race and gut instinct.  The first chapter was a sucker punch to the gut.  The imagery was gruesome but tantalising to the highest degree.  I found myself holding my breath waiting for that bomb to drop.  I was gripped from its anxiety inducing start to the finale like ending.  This was a premise that definitely had me hooked – just how persuasion and obsession can collide.  Ten years ago, Maya Searle was a member of the jury on the case of missing Jessica Silver, daughter of extremely wealthy Lou Silver.  Immediately the cogs begin to…