Description
With his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances , Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and itโs a high-profile a case he doesnโt think he can win for a client he canโt stand.It starts with a phone call Mike Daley never expected to get, from District Attorney Prentice Marshall Gates III, San Franciscoโs chief law enforcement officer and front-runner candidate for California attorney general. Friends theyโre not, but Gates needs Daley now--badly. Heโs just been arrested. A couple of hours earlier he woke up in his hotel room and found the dead body of a young male prostitute in the bed. Prosecutors are already talking the death penalty, and thereโs nothing in the mounting evidence to convince Daley and his partner--and ex-wife--Rosie of Gatesโs innocence. But even if heโs lying, itโs their job to defend him.
Sure enough, the deeper Mike and Rosie dig, the seamier their findings. From a shady Internet entrepreneur who trades flesh for cash to a prominent businessman who uses muscle to keep his enterprise prospering, Mike and Rosie chase down leads that take them from the depths of the Mission District, where drugs and bodies are always for sale, to the gated mansions of Pacific Heights, frantically trying to piece together the shocking truth of what actually happened, even as the trial itself is under way. ISBN:9780553581935
