000			02514n a2200253 a 4500
001			026129
005			20231009193230.0
008			130604s2004 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2003019782
020			_a9780525947752
082	0		_aMYS LES
100	1		_aLescroart, John
245	1	4	_aThe second chair _c/ John Lescroart
260			_aNew York _b: Dutton _c, c2004.
300			_a390 p. _c; 24 cm.
520	3		_a"To the outside world, it looks like Dismas Hardy is finally on top. A managing partner at his thriving, newly reorganized law firm, he's a rainmaker and fix-it guy for clients leery of taking their chances in a courtroom. But what the world sees is a mirage. For beneath the surface bravado and the lucrative deal-making, Hardy has lost his faith in the law." "Now Hardy's young associate, Amy Wu, suddenly rootless and grieving over the recent death of her father, brings the firm a high-profile and challenging case: Andrew Bartlett, the seventeen-year-old son of a prominent San Francisco family, has been arrested for the double slaying of his girlfriend and his English teacher. The D.A. wants to try him as an adult, but Wu cuts a deal to keep him in juvenile court - a deal that she's forced to break." "Overwhelmed by the mounting evidence against their client, and hoping to salvage his firm's reputation in the face of the D.A's righteous wrath, Hardy sits second chair with Wu in Bartlett's defense." "As the Bartlett case moves swiftly to the trial, Hardy is unable to turn to his old friend Abe Glitsky for help. Newly promoted to deputy chief of the Investigations Bureau, Glitsky has problems of his own when San Francisco is seized by a wave of violence. With fear and anxiety building, all eyes in the panicked city fix on an embattled Glitsky, who must somehow stop the criminal upsurge while being second-guessed and hounded by a hostile media." "With the city around them on the verge of panic, Hardy's search for the truth takes him and Amy Wu down a path that becomes more perilous with each step. With very little belief in his young client's innocence, and even less in the legal system, Hardy first has to conquer his own demons if he is to clear his client...and save himself."--BOOK JACKET.
650			_aHardy, Dismas (Fictitious character) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTrials (Murder) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aSerial murders _v--Fiction
651		0	_aSan Francisco (Calif.) _x-Fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
655		7	_aLegal stories
942			_cMO
999			_c266041 _d266041