Nothing Personal

In his early sixties and with his health failing, Jim Greer is still trying to eke out a living as a criminal defense lawyer in Cottam County, where his only remaining asset is his fading reputation as a scrapper. When Clifford Denny becomes the prime suspect in his wife's suspicious death, Greer agrees to represent him, only to withdraw as soon as he concludes that Denny has given him and the police a false alibi. Greer is too old and tired to listen to a client lie to him. As Denny is further entangled, Jim Greer watches from a not-so-comfortable distance, critical of the performance of Denny's public defender, and finds himself subconsciously hoping that the police will develop something that will justify his abandonment of Clifford Denny. When Greer comes to admit'”at least to himself'”that he has dodged a fight he was no longer fit to undertake, he is determined to redeem himself.Pendleton, Gary is the author of 'Nothing Personal' with ISBN 9781413702064 and ISBN 1413702066.