Author: Peacock, Justin

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Format:Hardcover

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In Brooklyn's criminal courts, justice often depends on who has the better story to tell. After a drug-related scandal ejects Joel Deveraux from his job at a white-shoe law firm, he slides down the corporate ladder to the Public Defenders' office in Brooklyn, where he defends the innocent and the guilty alike, a cog in the great clanking machine that is the New York City justice system. When his boss offers him the second chair to the savvy Myra Goldstein in a high-profile murder case, he eagerly takes it. The defendant is Lorenzo Tate, a black pot dealer from the projects who is charged with the murder of a white college student in a street shooting; and the tabloids have sunk their teeth into the racially tinged trial. In this twisty and overwhelmingly authentic journey through the real Brooklyn, Justin Peacock paints a portrait of the law as a form of combat where the best story wins - but who's telling the truth and who's lying are matters of interpretation. And of life and death.

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ISBN-13:9780385525800
ISBN-10:038552580X
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
Pages:352
Size:9.50" l x 6.50" w x 1.00" h
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