The Big Law

by Chuck Logan

1999

Status

Available

Publication

HarperTorch (1999), 448 pages

Description

When former cop Phil Broker's naïve ex-wife, Caren, blows the whistle on her feckless second husband, Keith Angland, a St. Paul cop making a cool $2 million moonlighting for the Chicago mob, she unwittingly signs her own death warrant. Unwisely for Caren, she not only shared her troubles with Broker, she also told Tom James, a reporter with fantasies of pulling off the perfect crime. Inspired by the $2 million payoff she entrusted to his safekeeping, Tom kills Caren in a brilliant frame-up that leaves her crooked cop-husband to take the fall. Covering all the angles, Tom runs to the FBI -- "the Big Law" -- and wangles a new life in the Witness Protection Program. But Tom's perfect plan doesn't count on Broker. Hard-edged and relentless, Broker smells a rat and is determined to set things right. But to succeed, he's got to locate Tom -- a clever man with a new identity, a suitcase full of cash, and the Big Law on his side.… (more)

Awards

Minnesota Book Awards (Finalist — Mystery — 1999)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1998-10-21

Physical description

448 p.; 4.19 inches

ISBN

0061096873 / 9780061096877

Barcode

1601550
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