Chapter One
The man Melanie Vargas was talking to would die violently in a matter of minutes. But in the here and now, he was so very alive as they debated the handling of a case that she couldn't have imagined it.
"You need to ask the judge to put off the trial," Lester Poe insisted. "The request has to come from the prosecution. If I ask, we might as well call a press conference right now and tell the world my client's ready to snitch."
They stood in the grand plaza outside the federal courthouse in New York City. It was an eighty degree afternoon in March, and the unseasonable heat blazing down from the bright white sky added to Melanie's anxiety. She was a young prosecutor, respected in courthouse circles but unknown outside of them. Lester Poe was the most famous criminal lawyer in America and had been for thirty years. With his trademark shoulder length white hair and craggy, handsome features, he w ...
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