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Perjury / Stan Latreille.
LIBRA PS3562.A7594 P4 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Latreille, Stan.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 337 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, [1998]
- Summary:
- Jack Brenner, a burned-out public defender from Chicago, has left lying clients and political maneuvering behind to take on the more lucrative, predictable routine of a civil lawyer in a small Michigan town. But when the court assigns him to defend a woman accused of perjury, he is swept back into the labyrinth of the criminal justice system - and into a nest of small-town politics, greed, and revenge. His client, Davey Alden, has admitted she lied on the stand, fabricating the incidents when she claimed her husband Joel Alden sexually abused their young daughter. Brenner faces a vengeful prosecutor, a political judge, hostility from the press, and overwhelming evidence and public opinion against Davey. Fueled by his growing attraction to his seductive client, Jack Brenner has a case he cannot win and must not lose - for if Davey is convicted, not only will she face time in jail, but her daughter will be surrendered to Joel's custody. And Brenner has reason to believe that even if Davey is guilty of perjury, Joel is far from innocent.
- ISBN:
- 0609601385
- OCLC:
- 37640612
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