John Ellsworth was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and moved to Chicago to set up his law practice. For thirty years he defended criminal clients across the United States. He has defended cases ranging from shoplifting to First Degree Murder to RICO to Tax Evasion, and has gone to jury trial on the same. His first book, "The Defendants," was written in 2013 and published for Amazon Kindle on January 20, 2014. The protagonist is Thaddeus Murfee, a 25 year old attorney with 18 months under his belt. He is drawn into a government-mob conspiracy when a woman walks into his office who has been tattooed w...