Blood on Their Hands
Weaving a Tangled Web
by Bob Brink
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Pub Date May 04 2020 | Archive Date Mar 03 2021
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Description
A racist attorney faces a crisis of conscience when reluctantly defending a black man brutally beaten by police and charged with resisting arrest.
Hiram Garbuncle is a veteran criminal defense attorney—as well as a racist, miserly alcoholic. His life revolves around hoarding money, following sports, pursuing sex, drinking—and the prideful practice of law.
Alec Monceau is a black man working to support his daughter’s family in Trinidad. It is 2008, and his car carries an Obama bumper sticker. This political advertisement leads to a superfluous traffic stop and a brutal beating by police.
It goes against Garbuncle’s grain to defend a black man from a charge of violently resisting arrest, but he is so confident of winning that he is negligent in the jury selection, and a mistrial occurs. He then discovers incriminating evidence on the two cops, and his new challenge becomes how to keep himself and his client alive pending a new trial.
Advance Praise
" Powered by expert plotting and topnotch characterization, the story pulls the reader in, keeping them turning pages until the exhilarating, tension-filled ending. Imaginative prose and sharp dialogue are bonus points. Despite the issues of racism and corruption at its heart, the novel is a tension-filled, fast-paced crime drama that lovers of finely constructed crime thrillers won’t want to miss. Deliciously readable! The Prairies Book Review
(The book) has an excellent storyline with great dialogue. Bob Brink provides us with wonderful descriptions of people and places. It's a fast-paced page-turner that pulls the reader in from the first page. Brink is one of my favorite authors and he definitely didn't disappoint with this one. Author Kim Aalaie
Brink has a gift for characterization, whether it be the oh-so-seedily smooth mob lawyer Feinberg or the stern but astute Judge Crabtree … Blood on Their Hands (is) a novel that manages to examine serious issues in wildly entertaining ways. Author Michael Hartnett.
A gripping read that is so appropriate for this time … The author is adept at creating a thought provoking work dealing with the issues of race and police brutality … A riveting courtroom drama that should be mandatory reading! Douglas J. Bjur
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781946920966 |
| PRICE | $3.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
steve a, Reviewer
Blood On Their Hands by veteran author and journalist Bob Brink is a well-told tale of racism, heroism, and small-town law and order. The story is centered on a criminal defense lawyer who by his admission, is prejudiced against African Americans. The attorney and his friend witness two cops beat a black driver after stopping the driver for a minor traffic offense. Despite the lawyer's bias, his friend cajoles him into defending the black driver. The plot develops nicely and the reader is treated to a modern-day lesson about the evils of ignorance, bias, and hate. Blood On Their Hands is reminiscent of some of our better courtroom/legal dramas. A thoroughly enjoyable and exciting read awaits those fortunate to buy this outstanding novel.
Wallace L, Reviewer
An enjoyable legal thriller with a racist lawyer initially reluctant to defend a coloured man wrongly accused of resisting arrest, an incident witnessed by the lawyer and his best friend. The corrupt police are revealed in the first court case when a hung jury astonishingly results in a mistrial and a second trial becomes necessary. The action speeds up with two murders as the lawyers sometime girlfriend dies after a car crash and a car mechanic dies in an explosion whilst driving the lawyers car! Red necked characters and members of the Klu Klux clan appear as the lawyers racist views change all building to a complex but satisfying conclusion.
Louise G, Reviewer
There is so much to this book and the author brings it together in a way which makes it accessible and not “hard work.” Some very confronting issues are woven into a compelling thriller. I hesitate to use the term gritty but it is a book about resilience, about challenging our own ideals and beliefs and being able to change.
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