We Hold These Truths - Couverture souple

Fleming, Victor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0988337339 ISBN 13 : 9780988337336

Editeur : Black Lake Press, 2013

Synopsis

Judge Owen Austin holds a secret. He has time for one more case, but does he want a case that could challenge his core beliefs and and compromise his hard earned reputation? Beautiful wealthy widow, Vicki Taylor, has a cause–revenge against the high school teacher she hold partially responsible for her fifteen-year-old daughter's suicide, but does she want a case that might reveal family secrets? Reservations cast aside, Judge Austin and two gifted trial lawyers explore life's greatest mysteries–are our core values learned or inbred? Is there a caring supernatural creator or are we merely the biological products of a disinterested nature?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

I am a Michigan baby boomer and was an excellent runner in my youth. I was successful enough to be considered a star, but not successful enough for anyone but my coach and me to remember forty years later. I was unanimously chosen by my high school classmates to receive the American Legion medal for courage, integrity, and leadership, but when I asked why, none of my nominating classmates could give me a single concrete reason, which believe it or not, explains a lot about me. Collegiate studies in Geneva and legal instruction in Rome left me half Protestant and half Roman Catholic, which may account for my conflicted nature. I am also a quarter Republican, a quarter Democrat, and mostly independent, which proves I am not very loyal, much less proficient in math, and leaves me cranky about the future of America’s political system. I fall within the remnant of a dying breed—the experienced civil trial lawyer. I have been frequently sighted in the cafeteria on the second floor of the Everett Dirksen federal courthouse in Chicago and on the steps of the century-old courthouse in the Upper Peninsula’s Crystal Falls. With fewer cases to try these days, a trial lawyer must be a circuit rider—just as in the days of Lincoln. Maybe this means that the glory days of law are not over. I am an optimist, so I would like to think this is true, but I don’t really believe it is so. I am partial to daughters and grandsons. If asked, my wife and clients would have mostly positive things to say about me. Go ahead, ask them—I do all the time. My opponents probably have negative things to report, but no one I know would ask them. Besides, in my experience, they are always wrong. For some reason I favor $300 suits and $800 shoes. When golfing, I enjoy the first, eighteenth, and nineteenth holes and merely endure the holes in between. You would be wise to bet that I am older than I look but to predict that I will act younger, especially when around my grandsons. I am working on being less didactic, but worry that the aging process is counteracting my efforts. I like to stoke a fire and throw stones in a calm pond, but sincerely hope that my work will warm and entertain rather than antagonize and annoy. I like to hear “cheers” and “blessings” and wish you both.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Lake Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0988337339
• ISBN 13: 9780988337336
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 350
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