<p><b>_______________________________________</b><br><b>An edge-of-your-seat legal thriller from the undisputed master of the courtroom drama.</b><br><br>Ray Atlee teaches law at the University of Virginia. His ailing father, Judge Atlee, was once a loved - and feared - titan, towering over local law and politics in the ancestral Atlee home of Clanton, Mississippi. And now, entering his last days, he calls Ray home to discuss the family estate.<br><br>Newly single and far from happy, Ray reluctantly heads south to meet his father. He never does. The Judge dies too soon, but leaves behind a shocking secret which Ray believes only he knows; a secret that could destroy Clanton''s very foundations.<br><br>And it soon becomes clear that Ray''s wrong.<br><br><b>He''s not the only one who knows.</b><br><b>_______________________________________</b><br><b>¿A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos'' </b>¿ <i>Irish Independent</i><br><br><b