Synopses & Reviews
It is the late 1970s and criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, better known as Jaywalker for his rebellious tactics, is struggling to build his own practice when he receives a call from a desperate mother. Her son, Darren Kingston, has been arrested for raping five white women in Castle Hill, an area of the Bronx long forgotten by the city.
A young, good-looking black man, Darren is positively identified by four of the victims as the fifth prepares to do the same. Everyonefrom the prosecution to the community at largesees this as an open-and-shut case with solid eyewitness testimony. Everyone, that is, except Jaywalker.
The young attorney looks deep into the crimes, studying both the characters involved and the character of our society. What he finds will haunt him for the rest of his career.
Synopsis
In this follow-up to "The Tenth Case," Teller takes readers back to one of the first cases of criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, who defends a young black man accused of raping five white women in the Bronx in the late 1970s. Original.