...intoxicating...and nail-biting...
A young nurse is savagely killed on Galveston's seawall. The murderer slices her running shorts from her body as his trophy and tosses her over the wall to the rocks below.
As dawn breaks, a bedraggled street person, wearing four layers of old, tattered clothes, emerges from the end of the jetty, waving his arms and talking to people only he hears. He trips over the body, checks for a pulse and, instead, finds a diamond bracelet which he puts in his pocket. He hurries across the street, heading for breakfast at the Salvation Army two blocks away, leaving his footprints in blood as he goes.
Wayne Little, former Galveston prosecutor and now Houston trial lawyer, learns that his older brother has been charged with capital murder for the killing. At first he refuses to be dragged back into his brother's life. Once a brilliant lawyer, Dan's paranoid schizophrenia had captured his mind, estranging everyone including Wayne. Finally giving in to pleas from his mother, Wayne enlists the help of his best friend, Duke Romack, former NBA star turned criminal lawyer.
When Wayne and Duke review the evidence, they conclude that Dan's chances are slim.
It will take the combined skills of the two lawyers along with those of Duke's girlfriend, Claudia, a brilliant appellate lawyer, and Rita Contreras, Wayne's next door neighbor and computer hacker extraordinaire, to unravel the mystery of the serial killer before the clock clicks down to a guilty verdict for Dan.
The Insanity Plea is a spell-binding tale of the struggle to save a man trapped in a mind like that of John Nash, Russell Crowe's character in A Beautiful Mind.
Combining legal thriller with tracking a serial killer, Thompson once again takes the reader on a helluva ride, right up to the last page and sentence.
Genre: Mystery
A young nurse is savagely killed on Galveston's seawall. The murderer slices her running shorts from her body as his trophy and tosses her over the wall to the rocks below.
As dawn breaks, a bedraggled street person, wearing four layers of old, tattered clothes, emerges from the end of the jetty, waving his arms and talking to people only he hears. He trips over the body, checks for a pulse and, instead, finds a diamond bracelet which he puts in his pocket. He hurries across the street, heading for breakfast at the Salvation Army two blocks away, leaving his footprints in blood as he goes.
Wayne Little, former Galveston prosecutor and now Houston trial lawyer, learns that his older brother has been charged with capital murder for the killing. At first he refuses to be dragged back into his brother's life. Once a brilliant lawyer, Dan's paranoid schizophrenia had captured his mind, estranging everyone including Wayne. Finally giving in to pleas from his mother, Wayne enlists the help of his best friend, Duke Romack, former NBA star turned criminal lawyer.
When Wayne and Duke review the evidence, they conclude that Dan's chances are slim.
It will take the combined skills of the two lawyers along with those of Duke's girlfriend, Claudia, a brilliant appellate lawyer, and Rita Contreras, Wayne's next door neighbor and computer hacker extraordinaire, to unravel the mystery of the serial killer before the clock clicks down to a guilty verdict for Dan.
The Insanity Plea is a spell-binding tale of the struggle to save a man trapped in a mind like that of John Nash, Russell Crowe's character in A Beautiful Mind.
Combining legal thriller with tracking a serial killer, Thompson once again takes the reader on a helluva ride, right up to the last page and sentence.
Genre: Mystery
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