The Mayor of Lexington Avenue (2005) is the first book in the Jack Tobin legal thriller series and also James Sheehan's first novel. There are two other books in the series - The Law of Second Chances (2008) and The Lawyer's Lawyer (February 2013).
Paperback: Small town Florida.
A place where police corruption has become an art form.
A place where favours are traded at the expense of truth.
A place where terrifying miscarriage of justice is about to unfold.
When a young man is railroaded into a murder conviction, trial lawyer Jack Tobin resolves to pay back a debt to his best friend, the boy who once dubbed him 'the Mayor of Lexington Avenue'.
Heartbreak, tragedy, courtroom drama and the hope of redemption play out in this utterly page-turning, thought-provoking legal thriller.
About the author: James Sheehan was born and raised in New York City and grew up in a four-room railroad apartment with his five brothers and sisters. He started working at the age of twelve, shining shoes at a local shoe repair shop. At fourteen, he had a newspaper route. During school, he worked at a local delicatessen, an antique store where he stripped and delivered furniture, as a construction worker during the summers, a short-order cook throughout his college years, and as a roofer's assistant while he attended graduate school in Florida. He was a trial attorney in Tampa, Florida where he practised law for over thirty years. Presently, he is a law professor at Stetson University College of Law and the Director of the Tampa Law Center. His experience of growing up in New York has shaped his life.
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Rating: 4/5
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