The Last Chance Lawyer (Daniel Pike Legal Thriller Series, #1) by WILLIAM BERNHARDT

Author:WILLIAM BERNHARDT
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: legal thriller, courtroom drama, courtroom, thriller, rebel lawyer, rogue lawyer, crusading lawyer, presumed innocent, proven innocent
Publisher: Babylon Books
Published: 2019-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

DAN SPENT MOST OF THE half hour in a quiet consultation room near the courtroom, gazing at the marble walls. Everyone left him alone, probably assuming he was deliberating, contemplating, planning his opening, meditating, whatever. Something productive. But it wasn’t true. Mostly he was just worrying, trying not to feel overwhelmed. He felt this way every time he was immersed in a lengthy, complex trial. It was as if he had been ripped out of the real world, submerged, buried, isolated in some remote polar outpost, with wind and snow howling and separating him from the rest of humanity. All his normal activities, contacts, and habits dropped off the map. Nothing existed but him and the trial.

Saving Gabriella was paramount, but so was saving Esperanza, and they had to get this murder case resolved before she was deported. He didn’t want a Pyrrhic victory. He had to save that girl. She was depending upon him.

What was happening here?

He caught his reflection in the window and gazed at the eyes he saw peering back at him. Something had changed, something inside. He had always cared about justice, about curtailing government bullying, preventing what happened to his father from happening to others. But this time there was more. Everything was different. Like this firm, these people who kept calling him part of a team. He never meant to be part of a team. He never wanted to be part of a team. He wanted to be Daniel Pike, the rebel, the lawyer in the Air Jordans with the backpack, doing things his own way but always getting the job done. And putting his surfboard in the water in time to catch the best wave. That was who he wanted to be. He didn’t need anybody else to be happy.

Or so he always thought.

Maria was right about one thing. That little girl had gotten to him. He could see those big brown eyes even when he closed his.

“I knew you would be the one who saved me.”

He wasn’t sure he could trust Gabriella. Every new thing he learned about her made him worry more. Made their case seem increasingly impossible.

But he had to win this. He felt that in the core of his soul. He needed to win this.

What was happening here?

Could there possibly be more in that reflection than the lawyer who always pulled a rabbit out of his hat?

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