Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A young law clerk finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer in this fast-paced thriller set in the high-pressure world of the Supreme Court written by renowned lawyer Anthony Franze.
Things aren t going well for Grayson Hernandez. He just graduated from a fourth-tier law school, he s drowning in student debt, and the only job he can find is as a messenger. The position stings the most because it s at the U.S. Supreme Court, where Gray is forced to watch the best and the brightest from the outside?the elite group of lawyers who serve as the justices law clerks.
When Gray intervenes in a violent mugging, he lands in the good graces of the victim: the Chief Justice of the United States. Gray soon finds himself the newest?and unlikeliest?law clerk at the Supreme Court. It s another world: highbrow debates over justice and the law in the inner sanctum of the nation s highest court; upscale dinners with his new friends; attention from Lauren, the co-clerk he can t stop thinking about.
But just as Gray begins to adapt to his new life, the FBI approaches him with unsettling news. The Feds think there s a killer connected to the Supreme Court. And they want Gray to be their eyes and ears inside One First Street. Little does Gray know that the FBI will soon set its sights on him.
Racing against the clock in a world cloaked in secrecy, Gray must uncover the truth before the murderer strikes again in this thrilling high-stakes story of power and revenge by Washington, D.C. lawyer-turned-author Anthony Franze.
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A Washington, D.C., lawyer and frequent major media commentator on the Supreme Court, Anthony Franze delivers a high-stakes story of family, power, loss, and revenge set within the insular world of the highest court in our country.
Among Washington, D.C., power players, everyone has secrets they desperately want to keep hidden, including Sean Serrat, a Supreme Court lawyer. Sean transformed his misspent youth into a model adulthood and now has one of the most respected legal careers in the country. But just as he learns he's on the short list to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, his daughter, Abby, a talented and dedicated law student, goes missing. Abby's lifeless body is soon found in the library of the Supreme Court, and her boyfriend, Malik Montgomery, a law clerk at the high court, is immediately arrested. The ensuing media frenzy leads to allegations that Malik's arrest was racially motivated, sparking a national controversy.
While the Serrat family works through their grief, Sean begins to suspect the authorities arrested the wrong person. Delving into the mysteries of his daughter's last days, Sean stumbles over secrets within his own family as well as the lies of some of the most powerful people in the country. People will stop at nothing to ensure that Sean never exposes the truth.
An excerpt of Franze's new legal thriller The Outsider, coming out this March, is now available at the end of The Advocate's Daughter ebook.