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The Color of Law

A Novel

by Mark Gimenez
Stephen Hoye
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A poor-boy college football hero turned successful partner at a prominent Dallas firm—who long ago checked his conscience at the door—catches a case that forces him to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing in this masterful debut legal thriller.
Clark McCall, ne’er-do-well son of Texas millionaire senator and presidential hopeful Mack McCall, puts a major crimp in his father’s election plans when he winds up murdered—apparently by Shawanda Jones, a heroin-addicted hooker—after a tawdry night of booze, drugs, and rough sex.
Scott Fenney, who’s worked his way to being a partner at an elite Dallas law firm, is assigned to provide Shawanda’s pro bono defense after the federal judge on the case hears him deliver an inspiring, altruistic—and completely insincere—speech to the local bar association. Scott plans to farm the case out to an old law school buddy, do-good-attorney Bobby Herrin. But his plans go awry when Shawanda puts her foot down in court and refuses to be passed off to the lawyer she considers the lesser attorney.
As the case unfolds, pressure is exerted on Scott to deter him from being too aggressive in his defense of Shawanda. That pressure becomes palpable as Scott is slowly stripped of the things he’s come to care for most. Will he do the right thing—at a terrible cost—or the easy thing and keep his hard-earned fabulous life?
With echoes of early John Grisham, THE COLOR OF LAW is a provocative page-turner that marks the stunning debut of a major new talent.

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  • Release date

    October 18, 2005

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415952542
      • File size: 356038 KB
      • Duration: 12:21:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This thriller includes a good mystery and a tongue-in-cheek look at the legal profession. The son of a Texas millionaire senator and presidential candidate is murdered, apparently by Shawanda Jones, a hooker. A. Scott Fenney, a handsome, arrogant corporate lawyer, is appointed by a powerful federal judge to represent her. Whether portraying poor blacks or hotshot attorneys and social- climbing Dallas society wives, Hoye clearly portrays the characters and situations. He memorably masters little girl voices for Shawanda's and A. Scott's precocious daughters. Using outstanding vocal flexibility, he invests his narration with a sense of foreboding as A. Scott's world slowly disintegrates. S.C.A. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 25, 2005
      A. Scott Fenney, the hotshot young Dallas attorney of Gimenez's debut, has a beautiful house, an idle, social-climbing wife and a spoiled daughter; his most lucrative client is local magnate Tom Dibrell, whom he regularly rescues from sexual harassment suits. When Clark McCall, the no-account son of Texas' senior senator (and presidential hopeful), is murdered, Fenney is forced by his firm to pro bono the suspect, heroin-addicted prostitute Shawanda Jones. While admitting to the crime, Jones claims it was self-defense, and refuses to plead out to avoid the death penalty—giving Fenney fits. With Jones's life on the line, Fenney agonizes about whether he can do the trial, losing wife, job, and country club membership as he slowly uncovers the truth about McCall. Along the way, Fenney takes custody of Jones's precocious daughter, Pajamae, in a cross-cultural subplot with more cliché than life-lesson. A former Dallas attorney, Gimenez offers an entertaining window onto the city's legal world, but he telegraphs most of the story, and his attempts at negotiating Dallas's race and class conflicts fall flat; whether platitudinous or wise-cracking, the minor characters unintentionally reinforce the stereotypes the book works so hard to combat. Agent, Liv Blumer
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      A big-firm Dallas lawyer loses everything while gaining his self-respect in this exciting story of politics, greed, and murder. Asked by a judge to defend an African-American prostitute, single mother, and heroin addict, Scott Fenney reluctantly agrees although the victim is the son of a senator with presidential ambitions. Brian Keith Lewis adopts a confidential tone as he becomes Fenney, other cogs in the legal machinery, the senator, the accused (who refuses to plead guilty), and, most important, a pair of 9-year-old girls, one the lawyer's daughter and one the prostitute's. Their relationship as seen by author and reader makes this abridged but plausible story stand out. J.B.G. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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