Whistleblower
Registered by janimar on 9/7/2010
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Michael Stratton wakes up in jail suffering from amnesia. He has been charged with the rape and murder of Diane Lawson, who was found in his trailer next to Michael who was unconscious.
Michael doesn’t remember anything that happened in the trailer. He had just been released from federal prison on an insider trader charge. After release he had gone immediately to see his family. In the front yard he had seen his son with the baseball glove Michael had given him but he was surprised to see him playing catch with Gordon Heller. Heller was Michael’s former law partner who was also involved in insider trading but Michael had taken the rap for him. Suddenly, Michael saw Gordon put his arm around Shelia, his wife and he lost it. He hits Gordon, and in the process accidentally his wife is hit also. Michael heads to the Watering Hole to drink it off. There he sees the girl who was his first lover, Diane Lawson. He doesn’t remember what happens after that.
In jail he plays chess with one of the guards, Sam Wiggens and they actually strike up a kind of friendship. Michael also is assigned C. J. Haggerty, quite a feisty lawyer by the court. Michael was an attorney before his jail sentence and knows that Haggerty, a smart woman is a great choice but he is determined to investigate himself, against his lawyer’s advice. He finds out that Diane had some things against her employer. Was she about to blow the whistle on him? Part of his memory returns and he knows he didn’t kill her so he continues to investigate and fills out that Diane may have not been interested in doing right thing but in getting money. Is her sister involved, or her strong-willed partner? What about Diane’s employer?
Though Michael has his faults you are pulling for him. He is confronted with some of his own demons and wants to make things right with son. Sam the guard shows himself to be a friend as Michael gets closer to the truth and is in real danger.
Author Richard Hicks, a former attorney writes a fascinating legal thriller that is a real page turner with many twists and turns including the ending which was a surprise but made perfect sense.
Michael doesn’t remember anything that happened in the trailer. He had just been released from federal prison on an insider trader charge. After release he had gone immediately to see his family. In the front yard he had seen his son with the baseball glove Michael had given him but he was surprised to see him playing catch with Gordon Heller. Heller was Michael’s former law partner who was also involved in insider trading but Michael had taken the rap for him. Suddenly, Michael saw Gordon put his arm around Shelia, his wife and he lost it. He hits Gordon, and in the process accidentally his wife is hit also. Michael heads to the Watering Hole to drink it off. There he sees the girl who was his first lover, Diane Lawson. He doesn’t remember what happens after that.
In jail he plays chess with one of the guards, Sam Wiggens and they actually strike up a kind of friendship. Michael also is assigned C. J. Haggerty, quite a feisty lawyer by the court. Michael was an attorney before his jail sentence and knows that Haggerty, a smart woman is a great choice but he is determined to investigate himself, against his lawyer’s advice. He finds out that Diane had some things against her employer. Was she about to blow the whistle on him? Part of his memory returns and he knows he didn’t kill her so he continues to investigate and fills out that Diane may have not been interested in doing right thing but in getting money. Is her sister involved, or her strong-willed partner? What about Diane’s employer?
Though Michael has his faults you are pulling for him. He is confronted with some of his own demons and wants to make things right with son. Sam the guard shows himself to be a friend as Michael gets closer to the truth and is in real danger.
Author Richard Hicks, a former attorney writes a fascinating legal thriller that is a real page turner with many twists and turns including the ending which was a surprise but made perfect sense.
