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One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice
Warner
June 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 031615623X
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A young lawyer's outrageous and heartbreaking long day's
journey into night court. If M*A*S*H took place in the Bronx instead of Korea and was
about lawyers and judges, not doctors and officers, it would
look a lot like INDEFENSIBLE, David Feige's darkly funny and
thrilling account of an ordinary day in the complicated life
of a public defender in the South Bronx. In the span of a
single day we meet murderers and misdemeanants, loutish
lawyers, and vindictive judges. We race from courtroom to
courtroom, judge to judge, and defendant to defendant, in a
shocking behind-the-scenes look at big city justice as it
really happens. This is a book full of black comedy and outrage, of
unforgettable characters and situations. Written with the
verve and insider know-how of a John Grisham thriller, but
with the social conscience of a Barbara Ehrenreich,
INDEFENSIBLE has real crossover potential--and should ignite
a profound debate about law and order in America. It puts a
human face on the terrifying systemic failures that make
American criminal justice the dirty little secret of our time.
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