Illegal Motion
by By Stockley, Grif
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , General

When Gideon Page agrees to defend Dade Cunningham, a star wide receiver for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, against a charge of rape, he doesn't fully understand the treacherous path the case will take, on campus and off. Dade is black and his accuser is white, and Gideon must now deal with an explosive case certain to arouse media attention in a state obsessed with football - a case that raises uncomfortable questions in his own personal life.How will Gideon's daughter, Sarah, a sophomore at the university, react to her father's presence on campus, raising embarrassing questions about the status of athletes and about relations between professors and students, between blacks and whites? Where will Sarah's loyalties lie - as a young woman who calls herself a feminist, as the daughter of a white man and a black woman, or as a Razorback fan and a member of the pom-pom squad? As Gideon investigates a maze of tangled racial and sexual motives, he realizes he must face up to his own fears and prejudices as well as family secrets of his own that have long been hidden.