Summary: Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. the money was good and getting better; a partnership ws three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience.
But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, for many year. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney.
The fast track derailed; the ladder collapsed. Michail bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer.
Summary: Patrick Lanigan had a bright future as a young partner in a prominent Southern law firm. Then one cold winter night, he was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death; the casket they buried held nothing but his ashes. A short distance away, Patrick watched his own buriel, then fled. A fortune was stolen from his ex-firm's offshore account. Patrick ran covering his tracks the whole way--but not far enough or fast enough. It began when he disappeared. But it really didn't start until they found him.