From trial-lawyer-turned-writer James Sheehan comes another fast-paced legal thriller that once again proves what the New York Times Book Review said about the author when reviewing his first novel: "Sheehan, a trial lawyer in Tampa, writes with bleak clarity when he's sharing the dirty tricks of his trade in the harrowing trial scenes, but there's a touch of the poet in his voice..."
With his first two highly acclaimed novels, The Mayor of Lexington Avenue (2005) and The Law of Second Chances (2008), Sheehan's character, lawyer Jack Tobin, attracted many fans with his compassionate intelligence and steady moral compass built into a strong yet sensitive man who is not afraid of whatever life tosses his way. In the third book, The Lawyer's Lawyer (2013), Jack's back to fight and love another day.
Hardback: Celebrated Miami trial attorney Jack Tobin was known in courtroom circles as a "lawyer's lawyer" - the guy the best lawyers say they'd want to represent them in a fight. Now retired from the high-powered Miami scene to the sleepy fishing town of Bass Creek, Jack represents only people who he believes are innocent.
When he is asked to represent a suspected serial killer on death row, Jack, at first, is hesitant. After reviewing the criminal investigation, however, Jack becomes convinced that the man was set up and decides to take the case.
That decision pits Jack against the powerful elite of Apache County, its citizens, and the woman he loves.
It also takes him down a road of self-searching and despair and, ultimately, into the courtroom where he must fight for his life in a battle that neither he nor any other lawyer has ever waged before.
What begins as a story about a serial killer and the terror he brings to a small community in rural Florida evolves into a search for love, friendship, and truth - with a criminal trial as the background and Jack Tobin in the center of it all.
About the author: James Sheehan is the author of The Mayor of Lexington Avenue (2005), The Law of Second Chances (2008), The Lawyer's Lawyer (2013) and The Alligator Man (2013). He was a successful trial attorney for thirty years, and currently teaches trial law and is the Director of the Tampa Law Institute at Stetson University College of Law in Tampa, Florida.
Rating: 5/5
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