One never knows what the next instant will bring. For Michael Knight, a meal with his best friend John McKedrick should have been a happy occasion. Instead, it leads to death, injury, close associations with mobsters and new realizations about his mentor, Lex Devlin.
Although Mr. Devlin is the one with the unusual childhood ties, Michael is the man who keeps getting caught between danger and deception. While trying to unravel the threads of who was responsible for the death of his friend, he is also dedicated to defending the man the world feels is responsible: the supposedly straight-and-narrow son of the local La Cosa Nostra's Don. After several seemingly clever moves, Michael realizes he is playing games with the masters and has to hope his nimble mind and quick reactions will keep him alive until the last round.
A speedy and intricate mystery, FRAME UP provides the reader with hopes to see Knight and Devlin again soon.
After graduating from Harvard Law with his closest friend
John McKedrick, Michael Knight takes a job with his mentor,
legendary trial attorney Lex Devlin, while John becomes
sole associate of a notorious mob lawyer.
Michael never lost hope that John McKedrick would escape
to 'cleaner pastures' -until John is murdered in a car
bombing bearing the signature of his questionable
clientele. How could two friends who were so close have
taken such wildly divergent paths?
In the wake of McKedrick's murder, three men who took their
own deviating paths will meet for the first time in forty
years. Matt Ryan, a priest, Dominic Santangelo, a mafia
don, and Lex Devlin put the past aside to focus on a
present concern: Dominic's son has been charged with John
McKedrick's murder.
At Lex's urging, Michael Knight reluctantly agrees to
represent the alleged bomber. In building a defense,
Michael is drawn into a high-stakes art fraud that leads
him from the seediest parts of Boston to the sophisticated
Amsterdam inner sanctum of international crime.
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