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Synopsis
L.A. criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios has become a champion of outcasts in a city offering them little justice and less compassion. But Zack Bowen is more than just a client. Claiming to be the lover of Rios's longtime friend Chris Chandler, Zack has found Chandler brutally murdered. And now Zack needs a lawyer.
Rios's instinct is to believe his protestations of innocence, even though Zack quickly disappears. Now Rios must track him down through the earthquake-torn Valley, traversing the sleazy landscapes of Zack's past. He must discover why Chris--a staunch family man, resolutely in the closet--abandoned his wife and son and risked his career for an affair. What other secrets was he hiding? As Rios uses every legal twist to unravel the mystery of his friend's life and the riddle of his death, he glimpses the answer in the dark mirror of his own soul....
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The latest Henry Rios mystery finds Michael Nava's gay Mexican-American lawyer under severe stress as he defends an L.A. street hustler. One of Rios's former lovers has been murdered; another is nearing death from AIDS. Nava strives for emotional depth and social relevance in his tough tales, told with Chandler-esque language. Rios describes himself best: "I was a magnet for the desperate, frightened and reviled, who somehow or other had heard about the fag lawyer who was a sap for a sad story."
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"Fast-paced and intense...A beautifully executed novel, with a classic whodunit at its core."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Nava...can devise as canny a plot as he can a defense motion. His latest, though, has something special--the scent of memory that lingers as poignantly as a departed lover's cologne."
--People, Page-Turner of the Week
"Like Raymond Chandler, [Nava] uncovers trickle-down corruption in high places. Like Simenon, he tracks crime to its intimate moral source in familiar human weaknesses, gradually implicating murderer, victim, sleuth, and maybe even the reader."
--Entertainment Weekly
"[A] solid, intelligent whodunit...This is a high-quality work of fiction that deserves to be widely discovered."
--Chicago Tribune
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- PublisherBantam
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0553577638
- ISBN 13 9780553577631
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages256
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