S'appuyant sur son expérience d'avocat, Mark Gimenez élabore des récits qui explorent des dilemmes moraux complexes et des injustices systémiques. Sa maîtrise stylistique réside dans l'entrelacement expert d'intrigues captivantes avec de profondes réflexions sur le droit et l'éthique. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des œuvres intellectuellement stimulantes, incitant à la contemplation et remettant en question les fondements mêmes de la justice. Ses romans sont célébrés pour leur profondeur et leur atmosphère captivante.
Returning to his small hometown in Texas Hill Country with his two young children after the death of his wife, Beck Hardin reunites with his estranged father and is quickly drafted into service as the local judge. He finds himself trying to pay off an old debt by solving the cold case murder of his high school buddy's teenage daughter ... and he discovers that a smal ltown judge's life isn't such a simple life.
A. Scott Fenney takes the stand for an impossible case. An ISIS attack on America is narrowly averted when the FBI uncovers a plot to detonate a weapon of mass destruction in Dallas, Texas during the Super Bowl. A federal grand jury indicts twenty-four co-conspirators, including Omar al Mustafa, a notorious and charismatic Muslim cleric known for his incendiary anti-American diatribes on YouTube and Fox News. His arrest is greeted with cheers around the world and relief at home. The President goes on national television and proclaims: 'We won!' There is only one problem: there is no evidence against Mustafa. That problem falls to the presiding judge, newly appointed U.S. District Judge A. Scott Fenney. If Mustafa is innocent, Scott must set the most dangerous man in Dallas free, with no idea who is really guilty. And all with just three weeks to go before the attack is due.
After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phone call from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend, Trey - the man she left Scott for - and is being held in a police cell. Now she is begging Scott to defend her.
A. Scott Fenney is a hotshot corporate lawyer at a big Dallas firm. At 33, in the prime of his life, he rakes in $750,000 a year, drives a Ferrari and comes home every night to a mansion in Dallas's most exclusive neighbourhood. He also comes home to one of Dallas's most beautiful women, with whom he has a much-loved daughter, Boo. For Fenney, life could not be better. But when a senator's son is killed in a hit-and-run, Fenney is asked by the state judge to put his air-conditioned lifestyle on hold to defend the accused: a black, heroin-addicted prostitute - a very different client to the people Fenney usually represents. And, more importantly, she is not going be paying Ford Stevens $350 an hour for the privilege of his services. Under fire from all sides, Fenney drafts in a public defender to take the case on. Yet as Scott prepares to hand over to Bobby, he feels increasingly guilty about the path he is taking, because Scott still believes in the principle of justice. The question is: does he believe in it strongly enough to jeopardise everything in his life he holds dear? And to what lengths is the dead man's power-hungry father prepared to go to test Fenney's resolve?
When hotshot lawyer Elizabeth Brice turns up to collect her daughter Grace from football practice, the coach tells her she needn't have bothered, as Grace's uncle has already picked her up. The only problem is - Grace has no uncles. And so begins a furious race against time to save Grace from unknown kidnappers. Grace's internet geek father John leads the search, forced to unite with his terrifying wife and even more terrifying father Ben, a battle-hardened Vietnam veteran. Somehow they must find Grace before it is too late. But secrets from the past make the little girl's survival more uncertain with every passing minute... A riveting, action-packed thriller, The Abduction will have you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last.
Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail bike and spends way too much time drinking beer in the sunshine. Ambition has never been Andy's strong point - he prefers to take it easy. That is, until one of Texas's wealthiest men walks into his office. On the spot, billionaire Russell Reeves retains Andy as his lawyer and, in exchange for some easy legal work, pays him more money than he has ever earned before. Andy's life is transformed. But nothing comes for free. Russell is a desperate man whose sole aim is to save his eight-year-old son, Zach, who is dying from leukemia. He is prepared to do anything - even if it means putting Andy's life in danger...
John Bookman - Book to his friends - is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's thirty-five, handsome and unmarried. He teaches Constitutional Law, reduces senators to blithering fools on talk shows, and is often mentioned as a future Supreme Court nominee. But Book is also famous for something more unusual. He likes to take on lost causes and win. Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from desperate Americans around the country seeking his help. Every now and then, one letter captures his attention and Book feels compelled to act. In the first of a thrilling new series from the author of international bestsellers The Colour of Law and Accused, Book investigates a murder set in the high-stakes world of fracking and corruption in deepest, darkest Texas.
„Pamiętacie, jak John Grisham z olśniewającą błyskotliwością zawładnął rynkiem
thrillerów prawniczych? Oto jego następca.” Daily Record Czy zastanawialiście
się kiedykolwiek, jak podjęta w ułamku sekundy decyzja może zmienić wasze
życie na zawsze? Bonnerowie to najbardziej wpływowa para w Teksasie. Bode
Bonner jest republikańskim gubernatorem, a jego żona, Lindsay, zawsze stoi
przy jego boku. Z zewnątrz wszystko wygląda różowo. Ale Bonnerowie nie są
szczęśliwi. Bode jest znudzony i tęskni za bardziej ekscytującym życiem.
Lindsay jest u kresu wytrzymałości. Ma dosyć romansów Bode’a i odgrywania roli
przykładnej żony. Desperacko pragnie się uwolnić od nijakiej codzienności.
Linsay wiedziona impulsem podejmuje nagłą decyzję i ratuje życie ubogiego
latynoskiego chłopca. Od tej chwili w jej małżeństwie wszystko się zmieni. Nic
już nie będzie jak dawniej…