Death Penalty: A Novel - Softcover

Coughlin, William Jeremiah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061090530 ISBN 13: 9780061090530

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1993

Synopsis

Eager to jump-start his failing career, alcoholic criminal attorney Charley Sloan defends the infamous Dr. Death, accused of helping patients die, and takes on an appeal for a down-on-his-luck colleague. Reprint.

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From the Back Cover:

There's Big Trouble In Motor City
Detroit lawyer Charley Sloan has been around the block once or twice. Down for the count, drinking heavily, a three-time loser in the marriage wars, Charley repairs his tattered career and gets back in the game. Heading his rogues' gallery of clients is the infamous, twisted angel of mercy, Doctor Death, whose patients have a strange habit of dying under very peculiar circumstances.

And The Game Is Winner-Take-All
But now Charley steps into a case with the opportunity to do some good. The high stakes include a literal matter of life and death. And, as he quickly discovers, they also include the sinister stench of corruption that reaches to the highest levels of jurisprudence-including Charley Sloan's respected mentor. Suddenly, a rock and a hard place never looked so good.

"In Charley Sloan...the author has given us a character we can care about. The verdict here is that Coughlin wins decisively in his final case."-USA Today

"A breakthrough crime novel." -Playboy

About the Author:

William J. Coughlin, a former defense attorney and judge in Detroit for twenty years, was the author of sixteen novels. He lived in Grosse Point Woods, Michigan, with his wife, Ruth, an author and book critic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0061090530
• ISBN 13: 9780061090530
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 423