Reversible Errors
Chapter One
APRIL 20, 2001
Attorney and Client
The client, like most clients, said he was innocent. He was scheduled to die in
thirty-three days.
Arthur Raven, his lawyer, was determined not to worry. After all, Arthur
reasoned, he was not even a volunteer. Instead, he'd been drafted by the federal
appellate court to ensure that after ten years of litigation, no sound arguments
remained to save Rommy Gandolph's life. Worrying was not part of the job.
He was worried anyway.
"I'm sorry?" asked Pamela Towns, his young associate, from the passenger's seat.
A gurgle of anguish had escaped Arthur as he had come, once again, face-to-face
with himself.
"Nothing," said Arthur. "I just hate being the designated loser."
"Then we shouldn't lose." Pamela, with rosy good looks fit for TV news, flashed
a bright coast-to-coast grin.
They were far from the city now, doing eighty on cruise control in Arthur's new
German sedan. In these parts, the road was so flat and straight, he did not even
have to touch the wheel. The prairie farmlands raced by, corn stubble and loam,
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