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Critic's Corner
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David Sloane, a criminal defense attorney can grab a jury and make it dance. He's successful beyond most of his colleagues' wildest dreams. His only barrier to his phenomenal career success is his conscience. The only barrier to his personal happiness is an event in his past so horrible his mind has chosen to forget it completely until he receives a phone call from a man who is later found dead. A man Sloane can only vaguely remember meeting. Without further warning, the Jury Master's life is propelled into a whirlwind that shatters lives from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. Joe Branick, the special assistant and personal friend to the President of the United States phones Sloane, then just hours later supposedly commits suicide in Black Bear National Park in West Virginia. But is it suicide or is it murder? And what can this death have to do with David Sloane? Homicide Detective Tom Molia of the nearby Charles Town police department finds clues that lead him to believe Branick did not kill himself. Unfortunately, for Molia, President Robert Peak has put his White House Chief of Staff, Parker Madsen, on the case. Madsen calls in River Jones, Assistant U. S. Attorney to take over the case from local police officials. Jones is told that what reflects poorly on Branick will reflect poorly on the President and his administration and that must not happen. Jones forces locals off the case, but Detective Molia isn't convinced
it's just a routine suicide. If it were, the G-men wouldn't call it an
investigation. Molia, bulldog that he is, continues his own
investigation without the approval of his Chief of Police. He needs to know more. About Branick. About others who are in as much
danger as he is. And about the president and his men. But in the face of
a secret that spans decades and governments, and puts billions of
dollars at risk there's one thing Sloane can't possibly envision: that
this runaway conspiracy is all about him—and only he can stop it. Robert Dugoni has practiced as a civil litigator in San Francisco and Seattle for nineteen years. He has a degree in journalism from Stanford University and worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Time before attending the UCLA School of Law. In 1999 he left his full-time legal practice to write, and authored the award winning expose, "The Cyanide Canary." Dugoni lives in the Pacific Northwest. Copyright 2006, Patricia Ann Jones Save Up to 30% on this book at Amazon.com Jones is a published writer and book reviewer for Tulsa World newspaper. To comment on this review you may email pattij777@aol.com |
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