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Harlan Donnally
William Morrow
February 2015
On Sale: February 17, 2015
Featuring: Ray McMullin; Harlan Donnally
ISBN: 0062025090 EAN: 9780062025098 Kindle: B00K52WYOS Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery | Thriller Legal
They call it pulling the trigger. Not by a killer in the night, but by a judge on the bench. Twenty years ago, Judge Ray McMullin proved to the people of
San Francisco that he could pull that trigger by sentencing
Israel Dominguez to death for a gangland murder. But it
meant suppressing his own doubts about whether the
punishment really did fit the crime. Now, as the execution date nears, the conscience-wracked
judge confesses his unease to former homicide detective
Harlan Donnally on a riverbank in far Northern California.
And after immersing himself in the Norteño and Sureño gang
wars, which left trails of bullets and blood crisscrossing
the state, and in the betrayals of both cops and crooks
alike, Donnally is forced to question not only whether the
penalty was undeserved but the conviction itself. Soon those doubts and questions double back, for in the
aging judge's panic, in his lapses of memory and his
confusions, Donnally begins to wonder whether he's chasing
the facts of the case or just phantoms of a failing mind.
But there's no turning back, for the edge of night is fast
closing in on Dominguez, on McMullin, and on Donnally himself.
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