Michael Ashmore, senior partner at a top law firm, has a reputation he cherishes. He is an honest man. He begins a love affair with a junior attorney at his firm knowing that he shouldn't. He also helped to hide a failed drug test from his brother and airline pilot. When his brother's plane crashes killing all on board ot was found that he was full of barbituates. Michael is charged with reckless homicide and does not know that he is being set up as part of a conspiracy and he only has until the verdict to find out why.
"Genberg brilliantly breathes new life into...[the] genre...The sort of twist-your-guts stuff that catapults Reckless Homicide into the must-read category." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
HE TOOK A CHANCE, TOLD A LIE. THEN A PLANE WENT DOWN--AND THE NIGHTMARE BEGAN...
Michael Ashmore, senior partner at a top law firm, has a reputation he cherishes. In a world of liears, he's an honest man. So he shouldn't start an affair with a junior attorney at his firm. But he loves her. As a major airline's counsel, he shouldn't hide a failed drug test for his pilot brother, Charlie. But the test showed a mere trace of a prescription sleeping pill. And Charlie swears he'll never touch a pill again.
Then Charlie's plance crashes, killing everyone on board. Charlie is found loaded with barbituarates. Now Michael, himself charged with reckless homicide, doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. And that's just what someone planned. For Michael Ashmore, soft-hearted, hard-headed trial lawyer, has been chosen as the perfect patsy in a chilling conspiracy. And he was until the verdict comes in to find out who and why...
Michael Ashmore, senior law partner at a top law firm, has stood by his brother, Charlie, through Charlie's failed drug test. Michael serves as counsel to a major airline, and he covers up the failed test and gets his brother back in the air ... only to have Charlie's plane crash.