Detroit Deceit (Paperback)

""Alex was beside himself. Had he won the case fairly based upon his advocacy skills or was he just a dupe in a seedy win-at-all-costs drama? Anger welled up. He felt hatred and rage toward Edward Daily. At once he felt a rush of perspiration. Daily had stolen the verdict from him which Drew had fairly won. More importantly, he had been involved in not one but two deaths. It was clear that Daily had done all he could to assure that he would not be convicted so that he would not be pressured in the future by the government to cooperate in its public corruption investigation..."" In Detroit Deceit, Alex Drew is a hard-working criminal defense attorney in Detroit, practicing in federal court. After successfully defending the scion of a rich Detroit family in one federal case marred by prosecutorial misconduct, Drew is thrust into the defense of his client in a second complicated criminal tax and money laundering case involving a former secretary to a Catholic order and a Diocesan priest. Before he can do so, however, he must defend his childhood friend, now an ATF special agent who is caught in a web of racial and government politics. As Drew labors to help his friend and win the case for his client honorably, he is drawn into an on-going federal investigation of city-wide corruption. While Drew fashions a skillful defense and acquittal is possible, his efforts are undermined by his own client. At the end of the exhausting trial, Drew is not able to affirm that the ""system works"" but must conclude that ""justice is done.""