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Paperback. Inspiration from real life events and legal issues in Kenya.He has never passed a bar exam. He has never been called to the bar. And for two and a half years, he has been one of Kenya's most formidable courtroom advocates, and no one has caught him. Yet.Solomon Adaka grew up broke, brilliant, and unemployable, a computer science graduate in a town with no use for his degree and no patience for his poverty. Then one ordinary Wednesday, a routine maintenance visit to the Law Society of Kenya's registry leaves him alone at an unlocked terminal, and he makes a choice he can never take back. He replaces a dormant advocate's photograph with his own. He becomes, on paper, a man who already exists.What follows is not a con that unravels. It is a career that soars.Solomon frees an innocent man by finding the real suspect's alibi, the one the police never bothered to check. He wins a mother's freedom by proving the law understands what a courtroom rarely admits. He exposes corruption inside a school no one else dares touch, and takes on a counterfeit vaccine case by crossing his own profession's picket line to do it. He argues cases with a seductive, dangerous brilliance that leaves even his rivals asking the wrong question, not whether he's good enough to win, but who could possibly have taught him to be this good.He builds a reputation few real lawyers ever earn. He builds a life. An ally who suspects the truth for years and chooses loyalty anyway. A rival advocate whose respect he earns the hardest way there is. A mother who believes, completely, in the son she thinks she knows.Every year the deception holds is a year it becomes harder to imagine surviving its discovery.Because somewhere out there, the real Solomon Adaka is still alive. And when he finally comes looking for the identity that was stolen from him, everything Solomon has built, every case he's won, every life he's touched, gets pulled into a reckoning no courtroom victory can talk its way around.STOLEN ARGUMENT is a gripping, morally unflinching courtroom drama set against the real backdrop of Kenya's legal system, about a man extraordinarily good at a profession he has no right to practice, and the two and a half years he spends outrunning a truth that was always going to catch him.This is not a story that lets you choose a side and stay there. It is not interested in telling you that talent excuses theft, or that theft erases talent. It asks a harder question and refuses to answer it for you: is justice defined by who is permitted to argue it? Or by whether the argument itself is true?For readers who love courtroom drama with real moral weight, a protagonist who is never simply a hero or simply a fraud, and a legal system rendered with genuine care and research, STOLEN ARGUMENT delivers a verdict you will be thinking about long after the final page.What would you have done in his place? What would you forgive, and what would you never be able to?Turn the page. The court is now in session. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de réf. du vendeur 9798235703612
- Titre
- Stolen Argument (Paperback)
- Auteur
- Moaz Khan
- Éditeur
- Moaz
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- new
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9798235703612
Inspiration from real life events and legal issues in Kenya.
He has never passed a bar exam. He has never been called to the bar. And for two and a half years, he has been one of Kenya's most formidable courtroom advocates, and no one has caught him. Yet.
Solomon Adaka grew up broke, brilliant, and unemployable, a computer science graduate in a town with no use for his degree and no patience for his poverty. Then one ordinary Wednesday, a routine maintenance visit to the Law Society of Kenya's registry leaves him alone at an unlocked terminal, and he makes a choice he can never take back. He replaces a dormant advocate's photograph with his own. He becomes, on paper, a man who already exists.
What follows is not a con that unravels. It is a career that soars.
Solomon frees an innocent man by finding the real suspect's alibi, the one the police never bothered to check. He wins a mother's freedom by proving the law understands what a courtroom rarely admits. He exposes corruption inside a school no one else dares touch, and takes on a counterfeit vaccine case by crossing his own profession's picket line to do it. He argues cases with a seductive, dangerous brilliance that leaves even his rivals asking the wrong question, not whether he's good enough to win, but who could possibly have taught him to be this good.
He builds a reputation few real lawyers ever earn. He builds a life. An ally who suspects the truth for years and chooses loyalty anyway. A rival advocate whose respect he earns the hardest way there is. A mother who believes, completely, in the son she thinks she knows.
Every year the deception holds is a year it becomes harder to imagine surviving its discovery.
Because somewhere out there, the real Solomon Adaka is still alive. And when he finally comes looking for the identity that was stolen from him, everything Solomon has built, every case he's won, every life he's touched, gets pulled into a reckoning no courtroom victory can talk its way around.
STOLEN ARGUMENT is a gripping, morally unflinching courtroom drama set against the real backdrop of Kenya's legal system, about a man extraordinarily good at a profession he has no right to practice, and the two and a half years he spends outrunning a truth that was always going to catch him.
This is not a story that lets you choose a side and stay there. It is not interested in telling you that talent excuses theft, or that theft erases talent. It asks a harder question and refuses to answer it for you: is justice defined by who is permitted to argue it? Or by whether the argument itself is true?
For readers who love courtroom drama with real moral weight, a protagonist who is never simply a hero or simply a fraud, and a legal system rendered with genuine care and research, STOLEN ARGUMENT delivers a verdict you will be thinking about long after the final page.
What would you have done in his place? What would you forgive, and what would you never be able to?
Turn the page. The court is now in session.
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