Every editor in America could tell similar stories. They are the stuff of great hilarity in newspaper bars. Most of these inadvertently transmitted lies are innocent enough, with few serious consequences. But in Just Cause, John Katzenbach raises the ante. And his ex-wife has taken his daughter to live with her new husband in Tampa.
Every day slides into the next and the banal terrors of middle-age lie directly ahead.
Then he receives a letter from a convict on Death Row. He looks at the meager clips. But to Cowart the horror of the crime is at odds with the intelligence of the letter. Cowart is intrigued. He wonders whether he still has the legs to be a reporter.