Good Counsel: A Novel - Brossura

He believes with all his heart that indigent clients have a right to the best legal defense possible. And he represents the least defendable: the chronic sex offender accused of rape at gunpoint, the African-American boy accused of killing a white neighbor. He gets them off. He has "the gift." Everybody recognizes it.

Ultimately, however, Jack pays for his reputation with his integrity. By the time he decides to leave the Agency to establish his own private law practice, his line between truth and manipulated fact has thinned to almost nothing. Jack succeeds brilliantly at his specialty - medical malpractice-and enjoys every luxury money can buy. Until the day he crosses the thin line and lies under oath.

He bolts and runs, taking refuge in a secluded house on the Chesapeake Bay, where he encounters a young woman with the kind of idealistic passions he's lost. Her plight leads Jack to act one more time on behalf of an underdog and to regain-at least in his own eyes-his old idealism and honor.

With its intriguing cast of the accused and their defenders, Good Counsel is a knowing, fast paced drama about the high price of professional success. Tim Junkin, a new master of suspense, tells it powerfully-and from the inside.

"A suspenseful novel that raises serious questions, Good Counsel gives the insider's look into the ethical traps in high stakes trial practice. Finely written and authoritative." -Jacob A. Stein, ESQ., author ofClosing Argument-The Art and the Law

"A masterful Page-turner, Good Counsel plunges us into the lawyer's worst nightmare-a face-to-face confrontation with his own conscience." -Ken Gormely, author ofArchibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation