ROBERT ELLIS is the worldwide bestselling author of Access to Power, The Dead Room and the critically acclaimed Los Angeles Times bestseller City of Fire, The Lost Witness, and Murder Season
A youthful female is uncovered brutally slain in her very own residence in Philadelphia. The mailman evidently "did it." His fingerprints and teeth marks are discovered all over the body, and he is found at his own home, a short time after the murder, coated in the ladies blood. A next door neighbor observed the mail carrier jogging away from the crime scene, saturated in blood, at the estimated time the crime was determined.
Teddy Mack, a young lawyer at the Barnett & Stokes Law Firm, concentrating in corporate law, is requested to defend the offender by the firm's senior partner, even though Mack has no expertise as a defense attorney. Because of previous personal problems, Mack is revolted by criminal law, and is hesitant to take the case. However, the demand is made by his mentor, which makes it tough to turn down. He is essentially told that all he will be expected to do, since the defendant certainly committed the heinous crime, is to get rid of the death penalty as an option and make sure that the offender is sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane, as compared to the state penitentiary.
As Mack looks at the homicide and the research to prepare his defense, he finds another similarly grisly murder - and another; murders fully commited while the defendant is behind bars. The city's populace panics that a serial killer is on the loose. As the bodies keep turning up, so does proof of dirty politics and corrupt justice - a system that will indict, convict and kill the innocent in return for solving crimes and bringing in guilty verdicts.
Mack enters a community of horror and physical violence, confronting his own past demons, and a very real enormous in the present. He fights to save a life, and discover the truth behind the aggressive prosecution and the history of death penalty sentences by a zealous DA.
Great book buy it without a doubt.
The Dead RoomA youthful female is uncovered brutally slain in her very own residence in Philadelphia. The mailman evidently "did it." His fingerprints and teeth marks are discovered all over the body, and he is found at his own home, a short time after the murder, coated in the ladies blood. A next door neighbor observed the mail carrier jogging away from the crime scene, saturated in blood, at the estimated time the crime was determined.
Teddy Mack, a young lawyer at the Barnett & Stokes Law Firm, concentrating in corporate law, is requested to defend the offender by the firm's senior partner, even though Mack has no expertise as a defense attorney. Because of previous personal problems, Mack is revolted by criminal law, and is hesitant to take the case. However, the demand is made by his mentor, which makes it tough to turn down. He is essentially told that all he will be expected to do, since the defendant certainly committed the heinous crime, is to get rid of the death penalty as an option and make sure that the offender is sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane, as compared to the state penitentiary.
As Mack looks at the homicide and the research to prepare his defense, he finds another similarly grisly murder - and another; murders fully commited while the defendant is behind bars. The city's populace panics that a serial killer is on the loose. As the bodies keep turning up, so does proof of dirty politics and corrupt justice - a system that will indict, convict and kill the innocent in return for solving crimes and bringing in guilty verdicts.
Mack enters a community of horror and physical violence, confronting his own past demons, and a very real enormous in the present. He fights to save a life, and discover the truth behind the aggressive prosecution and the history of death penalty sentences by a zealous DA.
Great book buy it without a doubt.
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