Publisher's Synopsis
Tom McMurtrie gave up a promising career as a trial lawyer to become a law professor at the University of Alabama. Now he finds himself forced into retirement, betrayed by a powerful colleague and his own failing health. Then the young family of one of Tom's oldest friends is killed in a tragic collision with an 18-wheeler. Believing his career is over, Tom refers his friend to a brilliant, yet beleaguered, former student, Rick Drake, who begins to uncover that the truth behind the tragedy is buried in a tangled web of arson, bribery and greed.
