A man stumbles into Chicago's Blessed Trinity Hospital with a mild stroke, but errors badly damage Sam Roosevelt's brain. His distraught wife, Bertha, is given a lawyer's card: Maximillian Greene. In London, Chester Melrose, an aging partner in a Chicago law firm, Wilson & Thompson, meets Gordon Hawke; head of Imperial Insurance, and obtains new lucrative medical malpractice defense work. Five partners at Melrose's firm, Cal; Pete; Rasheed; Tony; and "Curly" are all new members of the management committee. Their friendship, however, devolves into a bitter fight for control. Melrose delegates...
A man stumbles into Chicago's Blessed Trinity Hospital with a mild stroke, but errors badly damage Sam Roosevelt's brain. His distraught wife, Bertha,...
The 1960s. An America on edge--the cold war, race riots, Vietnam. A frozen Midwestern Air Force town. A pair of gruesome sex murders. A black airman on trial. Will justice or bigotry prevail? For Tony Jeffries, it s a double-edged sword: a surprise promotion to captain in his first weeks as an Air Force JAG and, right on its heels, an appointment as defense counsel in a near-unwinnable case. Two local women have been brutally raped and murdered, and the evidence points squarely at George Torrance, a black airman with a checkered past. The town s and the base s bigwigs are determined to make...
The 1960s. An America on edge--the cold war, race riots, Vietnam. A frozen Midwestern Air Force town. A pair of gruesome sex murders. A black airman o...
