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CRIME OF PRIVILEGE
Indie Next pick, June 2013.
CRIME OF PRIVILEGE is set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and centers around the Gregorys - a high-powered political family (that sounds amazingly like the Kennedys). The novel opens in 1980s at a star-studded summer party at the family's compound on the Cape. Our protagonist, George, is a college student and friend of the family who finds himself, tipsily, bearing witness as a girl is assaulted by one of the Gregory boys. His failure to act before things get out of control haunts George years into the future, when we meet him as the Assistant District Attorney of the Cape & Islands. It is understood that his silence about the assault has earned him law degree, and this position. When George is lured into investigating a murder that occurred the night after a different party at the Gregory's home years before, he becomes driven to break down the walls that protect this powerful family. As the case takes him to San Francisco, Idaho, Costa Rica and France, he finds himself ruffling high-level feathers closer to home. George digs deep into the convoluted connections that comprise the Gregory's world, and he is driven to find answers even once his own life is at stake.
"Walter Walker combines an experienced attorney's sense of our flawed criminal justice system with a natural storyteller's gift. Crime of Privilege is a twisting, engrossing, irresistible detective story." -- Walter Landay
Walter Walker is a lawyer based in San Francisco. He is the author of A Dime to Dance By, The Immediate Prospect of Being Hanged (listed as best mystery of the year by the Philadelphia Inquirer), RULES OF THE KNIFE FIGHT and THE TWO DUDE DEFENSE - published in the 1980s - and he's spent the intervening years setting up his law practice.
(A David Gernert book for the Gernert Company.)
CRIME OF PRIVILEGE is set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and centers around the Gregorys - a high-powered political family (that sounds amazingly like the Kennedys). The novel opens in 1980s at a star-studded summer party at the family's compound on the Cape. Our protagonist, George, is a college student and friend of the family who finds himself, tipsily, bearing witness as a girl is assaulted by one of the Gregory boys. His failure to act before things get out of control haunts George years into the future, when we meet him as the Assistant District Attorney of the Cape & Islands. It is understood that his silence about the assault has earned him law degree, and this position. When George is lured into investigating a murder that occurred the night after a different party at the Gregory's home years before, he becomes driven to break down the walls that protect this powerful family. As the case takes him to San Francisco, Idaho, Costa Rica and France, he finds himself ruffling high-level feathers closer to home. George digs deep into the convoluted connections that comprise the Gregory's world, and he is driven to find answers even once his own life is at stake.
"Walter Walker combines an experienced attorney's sense of our flawed criminal justice system with a natural storyteller's gift. Crime of Privilege is a twisting, engrossing, irresistible detective story." -- Walter Landay
Walter Walker is a lawyer based in San Francisco. He is the author of A Dime to Dance By, The Immediate Prospect of Being Hanged (listed as best mystery of the year by the Philadelphia Inquirer), RULES OF THE KNIFE FIGHT and THE TWO DUDE DEFENSE - published in the 1980s - and he's spent the intervening years setting up his law practice.
(A David Gernert book for the Gernert Company.)
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Published 2013-06-01 by Ballantine Books |