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Jay Porter Séries

Cette série plonge les lecteurs dans le monde brut d'un avocat déterminé, mais souvent en difficulté, naviguant dans les complexités de la justice au Texas des années 1980. Chaque histoire se déroule sur fond de changements sociaux et politiques importants, révélant un protagoniste au passé d'activiste désormais impliqué dans des affaires dangereuses. De la découverte d'actes répréhensibles d'entreprises liés à des crimes environnementaux à la défense des marginalisés contre des intérêts puissants, la série explore constamment les thèmes de la corruption, des tensions raciales et de la lutte pour la vérité. Les lecteurs sont entraînés dans des intrigues pleines de suspense où l'ambiguïté morale et les enjeux élevés sont constants.

Pleasantville
Black Water Rising

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. Black Water Rising

    • 448pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    Jay Porter has long since made peace with not living the American Dream. He runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy Houston strip mall—where his most promising client is a low-rent call girl—and he's determined to leave the sins of his past buried: the guns, the FBI file, the trial that nearly destroyed him. That is, until the night he saves a woman from drowning and inadvertently opens a Pandora's box. Her secrets reach into the upper echelons of Houston's corporate power brokers and ensnare Jay in a murder investigation that could cost him his practice, his family . . . even his life. Black Water Rising is a brilliant debut thriller that marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent.

    Black Water Rising1
    3,6

  2. Pleasantville

    • 448pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville - the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949.Axel Hathorne, former chief of police and the son of Pleasantville's founding father Sam Hathorne, was the clear favourite, all set to become Houston's first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to a late entrant into the race - Sandy Wolcott, a defence attorney riding high on the success of a high-profile murder trial.And then, just as the competition intensifies, a girl goes missing, apparently while canvassing for Axel. And when her body is found, Axel's nephew is charged with her murder.Sam is determined that Jay Porter defends his grandson. And even though Jay is tired of wading through other people's problems, he suddenly finds himself trying his first murder case, a trial that threatens to blow the entire community wide open, and reveal the lengths that those with power are willing to go to hold onto it.

    Pleasantville2
    3,8