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Lawyer Greg Monarch has to resort to some dirty tricks to save a former partner accused of murder in California. The partner was framed by nuclear polluters he was exposing. The moral of the story is that sometimes it is necessary to bend the rules to achieve justice. By the author of A Death in White Bear Lake.Tags
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Greg Monarch's career as a criminal attorney took a tragic turn years ago and now he's a marginal civil lawyer. He and Ira Sullivan grew up together but life dealt them a wedge to their friendship. Now Ira has been arrested for murder and nothing makes sense. Greg reluctantly tries to sort out the truth.
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Barry Siegel, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the author of seven previous books, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, He now directs the literary journalism program at the University of California, Irvine.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1998
- Dedication
- For my mother and father,
Rae and Earl, with much love - First words
- At half past six on a misty spring evening, a siren sounding along an isolated reach of the central California coast jostled Greg Monarch from his customary late afternoon reverie.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Okay then," Greg said slowly. "I'm finished with this witness."
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