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From bestselling author Phillip Margolin, a quick-paced legal thriller loaded with page-turning suspense.Peter Hale is just a small lawyer battling to create their own mark in his dad's venerable lawyer when he's presented with the chance of an eternity. Throughout the test of the multi-million-dollar event, Peter's dad, the lead lawyer, suffers a coronary attack and requires Peter to maneuver for a mistrial until he's feeling better. Chris decides this really is his only opportunity to convince his father that he's the lawyer he understands herself to be, and he selects tocarry on with the case against his father's wishes. In his enthusiasm to show herself, Peter fails his customer and eventually ends up dropping his father.Unemployed, hisjob, and everything—the situation and disinherited, Peter takes the only real job he's offered—that of the public defender in a little Oregon town.