Jack Patterson returns to Little Rock at the request of his boyhood friend Sam Pagano, but when Jack arrives, hes abducted and taken to a remote swamp where hes beaten and lynchedby men set on revenge. Clovis Jones, his friend and bodyguard, finds Jack near death and gets him to a hospital.As Jack recovers, he learns Sams college sweetheart, Jana Hall, is now a doctor who established and ran Arkansass health clinics for the poor, including one in Little Rocks East End. Janas efforts stepped on the toes of somepowerful people, including someone who wants her clinics shut down, her medical practice ended, and for her to spend the rest of her life in jail. Meanwhile, someone has killed the men who tried to lynch Jack, and Jack is the prime suspect in the murders.To make matters worse, Jack must defend Jana without the aid of his trusted assistant, Maggie, and his usual cocounsel, Micki Lawrence. Jack faces an unethical special prosecutor, a judge on the take, and the shadowy power broker bent on destroying Dr. Hall and her health clinics. Why Jana has become such a target, no one seems to know. Every time Jack thinks he has caught a break or sees a way to exonerate Dr. Hall, his adversaries or his clientput a new obstacle in his path, including a second killer bent on settling an old score.Jacks courtroom tacticsfail, his client wants to plead guilty to protect her patients, and in a lastditch effort to overcome the long odds against his client heresorts to a complicated and...

Binding: Paperback;340 pages; Publisher: Beaufort Books; Classification: FF; Weight: 598 g; Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 21

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