A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
Edgar Nominee–
Best First Novel
Joel Deveraux is a rising star at a white-shoe law firm in Manhattan. But after a drug-related scandal costs him his job and nearly his law license, he slides down the corporate ladder to the Booklyn Defenders office. He arrives just in time for a high profile murder case, where he is assigned to work with the tough and savvy Myra Goldstein. With pressure from their boss and interest from the tabloids, they take on the defense of a black pot dealer from the projects who is charged with the murder of a white college student. Joel quickly learns that urban criminal law is a form of combat where the best story wins–but who’s telling the truth and who’s lying are matters of life and death.
- ISBN10 038552580X
- ISBN13 9780385525800
- Publish Date 15 September 2008 (first published 2 September 2008)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 25 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Doubleday Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 341
- Language English