The Jailhouse Lawyer

by James Patterson, Nancy Allen

Overview

From James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author: a young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself.

In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. 
 
Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There’s only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. 
 
Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time. 


 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316280013
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	09/20/2021
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	2,270
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

From their unexpected meeting at a high school pickup basketball game, through the ups and downs of life, to Pat Conroy’s death in 2016, he and Bernie Schein had a unique, culture-crossing friendship. Sadly, Brian Troxell’s delivery doesn’t bring this heartfelt memoir to life. His tempo never varies, whether he is recounting high school escapades, early civil rights activities, anti-war activities, or friendship’s changes over a lifetime. The memoir is filled with humor, heart, history, and salty language, but the life-giving elements of the story are buried in a delivery that sounds detached. Read the print book to feel the heart. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Hometown:

Palm Beach, Florida

Date of Birth:

March 22, 1947

Place of Birth:

Newburgh, New York

Education:

B.A., Manhattan College, 1969; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1971

Website:

http://www.jamespatterson.com

Editorial Reviews

I couldn’t put down The Jailhouse Lawyer, a page-turning legal thriller that exposes a headline-making crisis in the American courts: the new debtors’ prisons, where an inability to pay court costs sentences poor people to jail, with devastating consequences.” —Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Tony Messenger, author of Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

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