Her daughter wrote that the End of Days is near.

Ninety miles south in Austin, Professor John Bookman reads a letter from an old woman whose daughter took her two young girls to live in a religious cult six years before. The ATF agents don't make it to the front doors. 50-caliber Browning Machine Guns the arrest warrant names Jesus Christ.

Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from lost causes around the country seeking his help.įifty ATF agents raid a remote compound outside Waco, Texas, at dawn to execute search and arrest warrants. He is famous for taking on lost causes and winning. He is a recognized constitutional law expert, debates senators on political talk shows and reduces them to blithering fools, writes scathing op-eds, and is often mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee. He teaches karate and Con Law, law school vernacular for Constitutional Law. He’s thirty-five, handsome and unmarried but seldom without a female companion. He rides a Harley and wears jeans and cowboy boots and his hair too long to suit the conservative dean. John Bookman-Book to his friends-is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. He puts down the bottle and goes in search of Gracie-and discovers dark family secrets and meaning to his life. The war took everything from Ben-his wife, his son, his dreams-and now it threatens to take his ten-year-old granddaughter, Gracie, when she's abducted after a soccer game. The question is: does he believe in it strongly enough to jeopardize everything in his life he holds dear? And to what lengths is the dead man's power-hungry father prepared to go to test Fenney's resolve?įormer Green Beret Colonel Ben Brice drowns memories of Vietnam in oceans of Jim Beam. Yet as Scott prepares to hand over to Bobby, he feels increasingly guilty about the path he is taking, because Scott still believes in the principle of justice. Under fire from all sides, Fenney drafts in a public defender to take the case on. And, more importantly, she is not going be paying Ford Stevens $350 an hour for the privilege of his services. For Fenney, life could not be better.īut when a senator's son is killed in a hit-and-run, Fenney is asked by the state judge to put his air-conditioned lifestyle on hold to defend the accused: a black, heroin-addicted prostitute - a very different client to the people Fenney usually represents. He also comes home to one of Dallas's most beautiful women, with whom he has a much-loved daughter, Boo.

At 33, in the prime of his life, he rakes in $750,000 a year, drives a Ferrari and comes home every night to a mansion in Dallas's most exclusive neighborhood. Scott Fenney is a hotshot corporate lawyer at a big Dallas firm. A partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing.Ī.

The Abduction by Mark Gimenez