Product Description

A bomb destroys a medical centre in Seattle, killing over a hundred staff and patients. While no-one claims responsibility, the centre has been the target of anti-abortionists and the authorities are sure that pro-life campaigners are behind the attack, a view that is swiftly reinforced when various pieces of evidence lead them to arrest Lieutenant Corey Hamlin, whose wife aborted his child when he was away at sea. Dana McAuliffe is asked to defend Hamlin, a task she instinctively wants to decline, but when she meets the accused man she quickly discerns that the case against him is far from water-tight and that he is in all probablity innocent. As the trial draws closer she also realises that both she and her client are being manipulated by political forces with scant regard for justice: they are wanting the trial to be on the abortion issue itself and are quite prepared to drag in her own life and secrets to get the result they want. With her personal and professional life on the line, as well as trying to keep an innocent man from the electric chair, Dana has to find the real perpetrator of the bombing outrage if they are to have any chance of survival. Visit the author's website on www.sloanbooks.com

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1359230 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

About the Author
Susan Sloan was a practising defence lawyer on the east coast before the success of her first novel allowed her to 'retire' to an island off the coast of Washington state.

Customer Reviews

Excellent - highly recommended
Having never read a book by this author before I didn't know what to expect. Thankfully, the book turned out to be a gripping story from beginning to end, and I am glad I picked it up.
The story really has you hooked and leads you up all sorts of different paths. It had me changing my mind about various characters until the (completely surprising) ending!
On the basis of this book I shall be purchasing others by the author, and hoping they are just as good.

Caught in the spider's web we call Justice
I am an around-the-world sailor, and as sometimes happens this book was left at the entrance to a pontoon where I kept my dinghy. Like most people I have set authors whom I read but this was a freebie, so I took it. I confess that I would never have bought this book in a shop (it looked to me like so many sentimental novels), so I was pleasantly surprised and in fact lucky because it turned out to be an enjoyable read and also an educational experience.

The spin-off for me was the way Susan Sloan expertly exposes the unfair and almost arbitrary way that people are caught up in the spider's web we call Justice. She tells about the malicious way in which the hero becomes a pawn used by the system that masquerades as the Purveyor of Justice.

Not all people are innocent of what they are accused but theis book outlines the way both the innocent and the guilty are unfairly treated. Perhaps the ending was not of my choosing, but after all it was only a novel. Read it and be forewarned how society might treat you too if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. I cant wait to read other books by this writer.