Review: Opportunity Has a Price
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2011
Fingers Murphy's FOLLOW THE MONEY got me up at 2 AM just to find out how it ended. Not so much a legal thriller, but a lawyer as the sleuth crime fiction.Ollie Olsen is selected to join a AAA law firm as a summer associate, the chance of a lifetime for a kid of working class background. The recession is on and the student loans are piling up. He forsakes the career path of his friends for the high road.The first case he is asked to research is a loser. A man, who was a US senator was convicted of killing his wife a dozen years previously. His new firm has been asked to present evidence that Sen. Steele did not obtain a fair trial because his lawyer fail to follow other means to check the senator's account of the events of the night of his wife's death.Digging and asking questions Ollie seeks help from the experts and discovers a strange trail that was not difficult to investigate, but was dangerous to his health.His firm wins the appeal and the senator is free to reestablish his former life. Not the end of the story, but an exciting twist that will get you up at 2 am to find out "the rest of the story."Nash Black, author of SANDPRINTS OF DEATH