具体描述
Don Robak--the small-town criminal
lawyer who prefers sleuthing to civil
cases--is back in the latest of Joe L.
Hensley s highly acclaimed crime novels.
Robak s old friend and colleague Judge
Steinmetz needs his help in the worst
way: a $50,000 ransom note for his
estranged daughter has landed him in a
hospital bed, paralyzed with a stroke.
And there are those who are looking to
see him stay there...permanently. He
hasn t seen his daughter since she dis-
appeared into the drug scene twelve
years ago at the age of nineteen, and the
only way he can save himself and his
daughter is to call on Robak s talents.
The search fi)r Gail Marie Steinmetz
leads Robak into the sleazy netherworld
of pimps, hustlers, and junkies who live
in the tenderloin district of Capitol City,
but the trail gets hotter away from the
big city as he is drawn to his boyhood
town of Bington.
As he gets closer to the answers, the
questions start getting dangerous. The
people involved in drug-trafficking and
the local politicos are starting to look
alike and it s getting hard to tell the dif-
ference between the good guys and the
bad guys. Robak finds himself fighting
for his life on his own turf and he s not
sure who the winner will be.
