Black Water Rising (Jay Porter, #1)

by Attica Locke

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Reminiscent of early John Grisham and Walter Mosley, this taut, fast-paced novel heralds an exciting and powerful new voice in fiction. Big oil and its twin, corporate corruption, meet their match with Jay Porter, a struggling personal injury attorney down on his luck, who suddenly finds himself in a situation spiraling out of control. Jay knows a boat ride on the Bayou won't measure up to his wife's expectations of a birthday celebration, but it's all he can afford. Once a man of virtuous ideals, he is now just waiting for a break. All that changes when midway through dinner, gun shots and sharp cries for help ring out. When he fishes a woman out of the Bayou, his sixth sense tells him this charitable act will lead to no good. Unraveling the woman's past, Jay finds himself enmeshed in a web that weaves together greed, politics, and corporate corruption. And the secrets of his own past come back to either haunt or save him.
  • ISBN10 0061735868
  • ISBN13 9780061735868
  • Publish Date 9 June 2009
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Collins
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Language English