The Holding Company Author:David Crump What could have driven billionaire industrialist Warburton Powers to shoot himself, his wife, and his infant son? Robert Herrick, a lawyer and close friend of the Powers family, investigates the tragedy against his better judgment and finds himself dragged deeper and deeper into the mass of tentacles that is the holding company. Opposing lawyer ... more »Jimmy Coleman is a ruthless ex street-fighter who heads an army of litigation associates at the mega-firm of Booker and Bain. At every turn Herrick's quest is confronted by the holding company as it exercises its world-wide powers and connections at all levels of the government to bury the terrible secret behind the death of the Powers family. Author David Crump, Newell H. Blakely Professor of Law at U. of Houston, features Switzerland, New York, Iraq, Houston, and Washington D.C. in this intricate and absorbing courtroom drama.« less