David is entering a new phase in his life. He finally has his law degree and landed a job with a prestigious job in Austin. David’s biggest challenger is William Tidmore. Both are trying to bill the highest salary for a new employee. This company doesn’t care how many hours you work as long as you bring in the money. At a company party, David is talking to other employees and noticed that one of the lawyers, Nick, has had a lot to drink. David offers him a ride home on the way, Nick talks about the company and not in a good way. He tells David to get out while he can. The next day, Nick commits suicide.
David also has met Melissa. Little does he know, Melissa was sent to make sure that David acts and looks the part associated with this law firm. Suddenly he has a brand-new vehicle and a new apartment, and David is the highest billing lawyer at the firm. The boss takes notice and David is invited on several business trips. He begins to understand what Nick's warning meant. . .
There is also a private investigator that is focused on a group of men who were all in the service together. David also has met a homeless man named Robert. They become fast friends and then Robert is murdered. Robert and Nick were two of the men in this unit. So what is going on, when several more of the men end up dead?
Chad Zunker writes a great mystery thriller. AN EQUAL JUSTICE is one of those books where once you start you probably will stay up till you finish it. Zunker shows how sometimes being the best is not always the right way to go. Zunker also shows how anyone can become friends with someone who is not at all like them. Zunker book is right up there with some of the great mystery writers.
An ambitious Stanford graduate, David Adams has begun a fast-track career at Austin’s most prestigious law firm. It’s a personal victory for the rising superstar—a satisfying reversal from his impoverished and despairing childhood. Now he has the life he’s always wanted: an extravagant salary, a high-rise condo, a luxury SUV, and no limit to how far he can go in the eyes of the top partners.
But after the shocking suicide of a fellow associate—one who, in his final hours, offered David an ominous warning—he feels the pull of powerful forces behind the corporation’s enviable trappings. The suicide leads unexpectedly to David’s discovery of a secret enclave of the city’s homeless, where he can’t help but feel an affinity to these outcast souls. Nor can he ignore the feeling that they hold the key to the truth behind a dark conspiracy.
When one of his new street friends is murdered, David’s clear doubts about his employer start shifting into a dark reality. Now torn between two worlds, David must surrender all that he’s achieved to fight for a larger cause of justice—and become his firm’s most dangerous acquisition.
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