Used. Hardcover. When a disgraced corporate attorney trades his fancy firm for the messy trenches of the Brooklyn Public Defenders' office, he finds himself cast as a nocturnal custodian cleaning up the city's darkest mistakes. Teaming up with a savvy colleague on a sensationalized murder trial involving a local pot dealer and a slain college student, he quickly learns that courtroom combat is less about pure justice and entirely about who spins the sharper yarn. Justin Peacock delivers a sharply authentic legal thriller that reads like a gritty collision of Richard Price and Scott Turow, capturing the clanking machinery of urban crime with pitch-black wit. If you like your legal dramas served straight with zero sugar and plenty of suspense, this compelling debut rests firmly on the side of guilty pleasures.