num_pages: 230
description: Attorney David Adams is the last hope for an adolescent runaway being targeted by an assassin and sought by the FBI in a breath-catching novel by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An Unequal Defense.Having abandoned corporate law David Adams is now the voice of justice for the city of Austins vulnerable outcasts. His new client is Parker Barnes a trembling twelve-year-old runaway and foster-care poster boy arrested for petty theft. Dealt a rough hand in life he reminds David of his own childhood. This should be a simple if heartbreakingly familiar case. Until the FBI muscles in.Parker is also a suspect in the murder of a federal witness. No matter how desperate Parkers denial David fears theres so much more to the kids hard-luck story than hes letting on. Especially when a hit man sends the boy running to the only safe place he knows: the streets.With both the feds and a killer on Parkers trail the hunt is on. Teaming up with a pro bono investigator and utilizing his reliable band of street-savvy friends David must find Parker first if hes to save the boy from an undeserved fate. And maybe even save himself.
language: English
title: Runaway Justice
publisher: Thomas & Mercer