'Impressive and unique. As relevant today as it was over two decades ago' Bernardine Evaristo, from the Introduction
A gripping, propulsive courtroom thriller following barrister Lee Mitchell as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely rich
Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-class Caribbean background: in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom, everything is stacked against her.
After she takes on the high-profile case of notorious millionaire playboy Clive Omartian - arrested along with his father and stepbrother for eye-wateringly exorbitant fraud - the line between her personal and professional life becomes dangerously blurred.
Spiralling further into Clive's trail of debauchery and corruption, she finds herself in alarmingly deep waters.
Can she survive her case, let alone win it?
Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.
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Release date
February 4, 2021 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780241992012
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780241992012
- File size: 616 KB
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- English
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June 1, 1998
Readers without a tight grasp on the workings--and wording--of the British legal system may find themselves initially at a loss in Williams's debut suspense novel. Thirty-year-old black barrister, Lee Mitchell, is persuaded by a solicitor friend, Brendan Donnelly, to take the high-profile case of London millionaire playboy Clive Omartian, arrested along with his father and stepbrother for fraud. Unsettled by her client's high-handed manner when she first meets him, Lee is further distressed as the case proceeds by his lifestyle of drugs and underaged women, his habit of manipulating facts and his intrusions into her personal life. Realizing that the case threatens her integrity, self-respect and even her job, Lee learns that even friends like Brendan can be turncoats and that other barristers have become enemies. Williams constructs a taut and enthralling tale of Lee's crumbling life and her sticky situation in the Omartian case, capturing the tenuous place of minorities, the poor and unprivileged in the social and legal establishments.
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