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A poor-boy college football hero turned successful partner at a prominent Dallas firm?who long ago checked his conscience at the door?catches a case that forces him to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing in this masterful debut
Doubleday
October 2005
416 pages
ISBN: 0385516738
Hardcover
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Clark McCall, ne’er-do-well son of Texas millionaire
senator and presidential hopeful Mack McCall, puts a major
crimp in his father’s election plans when he winds up
murdered—apparently by Shawanda Jones, a heroin-addicted
hooker—after a tawdry night of booze, drugs, and rough sex. Scott Fenney, who’s worked his way to being a partner at an
elite Dallas law firm, is assigned to provide Shawanda’s
pro bono defense after the federal judge on the case hears
him deliver an inspiring, altruistic—and completely
insincere—speech to the local bar association. Scott plans
to farm the case out to an old law school buddy, do-good-
attorney Bobby Herrin. But his plans go awry when Shawanda
puts her foot down in court and refuses to be passed off to
the lawyer she considers the lesser attorney. As the case unfolds, pressure is exerted on Scott to deter
him from being too aggressive in his defense of Shawanda.
That pressure becomes palpable as Scott is slowly stripped
of the things he’s come to care for most. Will he do the
right thing—at a terrible cost—or the easy thing and keep
his hard-earned fabulous life? With echoes of early John Grisham, THE COLOR OF LAW is a
provocative page-turner that marks the stunning debut of a
major new talent.
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