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Pinnacle
January 2005
On Sale: January 1, 2005
408 pages ISBN: 0786016086 EAN: 9780786016082 Paperback
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As a heat wave stifles Kansas City, a death-row inmate is served his final meal, makes his final confession, and uses his final breath to proclaim his innocence. For fifteen years, Ryan Kowalczyk denied having slaughtered a young couple in their car as their three-year old lay sleeping in the back seat. But when his friend Whitney King, who also stood accused, turned against him, his fate was sealed. Attorney Lou Mason understands the pain of being orphaned, so when the victims' now-teenage son ask for his help in suing blueblood Kingβwho got off scot-freeβLou can't turn him down. Coincidentally, Kowalczyk's mother wants to hire him for the same purpose. And things get even more interesting once Lou discovers that four of the jurors on the original case died violently while the rest have disappeared. Now, with each sweltering day that passes, it becomes clearer that someone will do whatever it takesβfrom making death threats to carrying them outβto stop Mason in his tracks. The deeper he probes, the greater the dangerβuntil the past and present collede in an explosion of deceit, corruption, and murder.
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