Book description
In San Francisco--a city of tolerance and hope--everything came apart.
One man died at the hands of another. The next victim was killed by a
mob. Now fires burn in the night, helicopters throb through the air, and
politicians, lawyers and cops vie for the remnants of power. Somewhere
in the once-placid streets of San Francisco, a young man is on the run,
charged by the media with a crime he didn't commit, hounded by
demagogues, hunted by a desperate police department. One cop knows that
Kevin Shea is innocent of a brutal racial murder. An ambitious
politician will use Shea for her own ends. And a down-and-out lawyer is
all that stands between Kevin Shea and an even more atrocious crime. For
when there's no law left, justice is the only hope. 'Compulsively
readable' John Lescroart was born in Houston, Texas and brought up in
Texas, New York and Northern California. On graduating from U. C.
Berkeley, he did various jobs before becoming a full-time writer,
including working as a singer in Europe, a bar tender in an Irish pub in
San Francisco and associate director of the Jewish Homes for the Aging
in Los Angeles. After doctors estimated he had two hours to live when he
contracted meningitis, John Lescroart decided, on his return to health,
to take the risk of writing full-time. Two years after that decision,
his novel THE 13th JUROR hit the New York Times bestseller list and
stayed on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list for three months.
