Harry Southward was the luckiest lawyer alive, until all hell broke loose. Florida provided more than sunshine and sand when Harry’s wife, Glenda, dashed into their vacation condominium waving lottery tickets over her head, laughing and shouting they had won forty million dollars. What would any lawyer with forty million dollars do? Quit.
On Harry’s last day at the office he receives a letter asking for help from convicted murderer, Frank McIntyre, who likely would spend the rest of his life in state prison. Harry ignored the letter, but he wasn’t hard-hearted enough to turn away a visit from Frank’s desperate parents. They told an incredible story. Feeling guilty about his good luck, Harry reluctantly agrees to make one inquiry. That one inquiry drives Harry from his home in Kingsville, Mississippi, to Ouray, Colorado, and then to Memphis, Atlanta and finally back to Washington. Along the way he discovers evidence of a rogue FBI unit ostensibly left over from the 60’s when it was used to infiltrate the Klan in Mississippi.
Tracked by someone clearly bent on taking their lives, Harry and Glenda, along with retired federal agent Johnny Kinard, find themselves constantly on the run in a lethal game where only the winner walks away. They frantically search for answers.
A meeting with Senator William Chase of Mississippi on the Ross Barnett Reservoir is abruptly terminated when the Senator is murdered in front of Harry. He manages to clear himself with the local police but finds the FBI is coming to arrest him. Can he trust the FBI?
Everything points to Ralph Comfort as the man behind the scenes who has devised a complicated plan to extort drug dealers and subvert the law using the imprimatur of the FBI. All indications are that even the Director of the FBI is getting a payoff.
Harry’s problem is that he keeps losing the evidence and barely escaping from continued efforts to silence him. He finally gets to someone from the Attorney General’s office only to learn that the government is willing to participate in a cover-up of the story to avoid embarrassing the FBI.
Harry has to concoct a plan that will free the innocent Frank McIntyre. It also must ensure that Harry and his family will be safe from retaliation. The answer turns out to be a combination of Constitutional Law and the technology of the new millennium. Copyright Jack Kean 2004
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