Publisher's Synopsis
Intelligent, honest and hopeful, Prisoners of Truth is a modern morality tale of self-discovery filled with true-life courtroom drama and humor. Jody Weiner draws on thirty years experience as an attorney to masterfully weave a plot spanning four generations. Weiner's dynamic voice has been compared with Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist by writer and filmmaker Karl Francis: "They write with the same intentions and both deal with storytelling and reality with the same integrity, obliging the reader to engage truth in a deeply comic and spiritual manner." When prominent attorney Lucien Echo is accused of conspiring with a circuit court judge to fix a criminal case, Lucien's fiance, Alex Carlton, recruits local journalist Ollie Katz to help clear Lucien's name. Ollie has admired Lucien since college and seizes the opportunity for a by-line on the front page. But Ollie grows too fond of Alex along the way and must confront his own ethical issues. Alternating between Ollie's narration of unfolding events and flashbacks to turbulent times, the story captures their generation's struggle to maintain idealism in the face of their own realities. As Lucien's day of reckoning approaches, will Ollie's infatuation cause him to cross the line? Multi-layered, provocative, and often
