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Writing in the tradition
of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new
voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller
that readers will not soon forget.
Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out
to be. His most promising client is a low-rent call girl and
he runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy strip mall.
But he's long since made peace with not living the American
Dream and carefully tucked away his darkest sins: the guns,
the FBI file, the trial that nearly destroyed him.
Houston, Texas, 1981. It is here that Jay
believes he can make a fresh start. That is, until the night
in a boat out on the bayou when he impulsively saves a woman
from drowning--and opens a Pandora's box. Her secrets put
Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that
could cost him his practice, his family, and even his life.
But before he can get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that
reaches into the upper echelons of Houston's corporate power
brokers, Jay must confront the demons of his past.
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