Overview
His last case may cost him everything.
Ethically flexible and beyond caring what anyone thinks, defense attorney Wyatt Jackson has made a career taking the cases respectable lawyers won’t touch. He may look more like a renegade lawyer than a champion of justice, but beneath the rough edges is a stubborn conviction that sometimes doing the right thing means breaking all the rules. Even a stage 4 cancer diagnosis hasn’t changed that.
Federal judge Kate Kincaid wants nothing to do with a lawyer like Wyatt—until her son is kidnapped on a humanitarian mission overseas by a terrorist group. His captors offer Kate an impossible bargain. She must orchestrate the acquittal of Sheikh Mustafa al-Shammari, an Iraqi cleric facing trial for inspiring a suicide bombing. An eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, life for life. She cannot breathe a word about the blackmail or her son will die. And for reasons they won’t divulge, the captors demand that Wyatt lead the defense.
Kate has no choice but to trust the lawyer she despises. Resigning from the bench to join Wyatt as co-counsel, she must help acquit a man she thinks is guilty while concealing the truth from federal agents closing in around them.
For Wyatt, it will be the hardest fight of his long and colorful career, and almost certainly his last. He’ll have to pull out all his tricks and blur the lines between justice and revenge, right and wrong, hero and villain.
Master storyteller Randy Singer delivers another gripping legal drama mixed with high-stakes suspense, combining unforgettable characters, ingenious courtroom maneuvering, and a case with stakes that reach far beyond the verdict. Twisty and thought-provoking, this novel is Singer at his best.
- Gripping legal thriller perfect for fans of courtroom dramas by John Grisham, John Lescroart, and Robert Whitlow
- Features an unforgettable hero and themes of political corruption, finding redemption, and courage in the face of nearly insurmountable odds
- Written by an author fighting his own battle with stage 4 cancer (while handling anti-terrorism cases), tracking his main character
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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