Eve M. reviewed on 1/11/2007 + 194 more book reviews

Peter Hale is a young attorney with a lot to prove. Crossing his father, one Portland's most powerful lawyers, was a costly mistake. Now, cut loose from his job and from his inheritance, Peter's landed in the public defender's office of a small Oregon town --and in the middle of a high-profile case that could make or break his career. His mentally retarded client, accused of the savage murder of a college coed, faces the death penalty . And Peter faces a choice--between the pursuit of headlines and the pursuit of truth, between the compulsion to save himself and the courage to save his client-- in a devastating rial by fire.

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