Nobody Roots for Goliath
Subtitle: A Bomber Hanson Mystery
By: by David Champion.
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Allen A. Knoll, Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, CA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781888310443
Subjects: Hanson, Bomber (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Products liability -- Fiction.; Tobacco industry -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; California -- Fiction.
Genres: Mystery fiction; Legal stories
First sentence: She was driving so damn fast I didn't know what was going to give first, the engine mounts of the old pick-up or my liver.
Description: Has Big Tobacco finally met its match?  Mega-lawyer Bomber Hanson takes on the big guns -- the tobacco industry.  Is it responsible for the slow, painful death of his client?  It's a seemingly hopeless case with no precedented victories for the world-famous attorney Bomber and his amiable son Tod.  The plaintiff: A blind Pennsylvania Dutch father stricken with lung cancer.  His twelve adorable young daughters enamor Tod -- ad does his newly hired legal researcher, Shauna.  Tod travels away from California to Pennsylvania and North Carolina to uncover mysterious deaths, disappearances, adultery, lies and cover-ups, as well as a shocking witness who could turn the case around -- but whose existence hangs precariously...
Notes: Description from book cover.