A Cure for Night
Justin Peacock
- 06 oktober 2009
- 9780767929417
Samenvatting:
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
Edgar Nominee
Best First Novel
Joel Deveraux is a rising star at a white-shoe law firm in Manhattan. But after a drug-related scandal costs him his job and nearly his law license, he slides down the corporate ladder to the Booklyn Defenders office. He arrives just in time for a high profile murder case, where he is assigned to work with the tough and savvy Myra Goldstein. With pressure from their boss and interest from the tabloids, they take on the defense of a black pot dealer from the projects who is charged with the murder of a white college student. Joel quickly learns that urban criminal law is a form of combat where the best story winsbut whos telling the truth and whos lying are matters of life and death.