Attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach--friends, partners, and complete opposites--have perfected the recipe for legal disaster. Begin with a fool for a client--a man who can't even testify convincingly to his own name, much less to an alibi. Add a couple of determined private investigators and a brave, beautiful police detective whose work only confirms that your client is impossible to defend. Then go to trial.Welcome to the real world of criminal law, where the truth is out there--maybe.From the Paperback edition.

A man charged with the brutal act of terrorism...A lawyer sworn to defend him...A courtroom spinning wildly out of control...In the trial of the decade, attorney Tom Carpenter was just a spectator. Until, to his own astonishment, Tom finds himself thrust into a case primed to explode...The whole world thinks Tom's new client is guilty of the worst act of terrorism since 9/11--except for one shadowy figure, who feeds Tom astounding inside information. But just as the trial is about to break wide open, Tom receives a chilling threat. Suddenly Tom cannot trust anyone, and his family must run for their lives. The only way to survive--and the only hope for justice--is for Tom to crack a terrifying conspiracy so vast and so powerful that anyone who believes it has already been marked to die....From the Paperback edition.