William Jeremiah Coughlin était un auteur accompli de seize romans, s'inspirant de ses vingt années d'expérience en tant qu'avocat de la défense et juge à Détroit. Ses œuvres sont imprégnées d'une profonde compréhension de la nature humaine, des complexités morales et du monde juridique, offrant aux lecteurs des aperçus acérés des méandres de la justice. Coughlin explore magistralmente la psyché humaine, livrant des récits captivants empreints de suspense et de révélations inattendues. Sa voix distinctive et son intrigue complexe en font un conteur mémorable.
An electrifying courtroom drama of extraordinary power, reissued to tie in with the super release of In the Presence of Enemies. A failed trial lawyer and recovering alcoholic is swept back into the spectacular career he'd lost when a woman from his past asks him to defend her stepdaughter against a murder charge.
Legal thriller, tells of a federal judge who gets caught in the middle of a takeover war between corporations.
In a twisted trail of blood, he spelled out his name, The Stalking Man, hunting women in cities across the country the way his father had once taught him to hunt deer. He loved the moment of terror frozen on their faces when the all-too-horrifying realization would hit them-they were going to die a death more violent and ghastly than their worst nightmares...They had caught him once-he did his time and now he was "cured." But he'd been sloppy then. This time he slithered through the country, striking with cunning and precision, laughing at the law as he outran them again and again. Now two men must piece together his macabre clues and stop a sadistic killer who's about to strike too close to home...
The newest courtroom thriller from the author of the bestselling Shadow of a Doubt. When billionaire banker Augustus Daren dies, his beautiful young widow is left with control of the bank and now stands accused by her rich and embittered stepchildren of holding Daren in thrall after his severe stroke. When they contest the will, she and her lawyer find themselves with enemies on all sides.
Nine Supreme Court judges will soon decide four history-making cases. Eight of them will split along party lines four to four. The ninth judge, holding the swing vote, will tip the scales of justice. He's a good man, a fine man, and, unknown to nearly everyone, a dying man-barely kept alive by machines in a very private hospital.High-powered Washington attorney Jerry Green is one of the privileged few who discovers American justice rides on the rise and fall of a respirator. Now he's been called by the President himself to do something about it. It's a hunt for truth that will arouse his darkest suspicions...force him to make a shocking choice...and save the legitimacy of American justice. Or shatter it forever...
