The Law of Second Chances - Hardcover

Sheehan, Professor James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593057724 ISBN 13: 9780593057728

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2008

Synopsis

Benny Avrile, an impoverished hood in New York City, is about to hit the big-time. His mark is a retired oil man who is visiting his mistress with $10,000 in his pocket. Benny is told that if he carries out the robbery he'll get a share of the profits - an offer that is far too good to refuse. But as he walks up to the oilman's car, gun in hand, a shot rings out, and the oilman falls dead. Benny is arrested and sentenced to death. Representing people on death row is what trial lawyer Jack Tobin does best. Based in Florida, he is meeting with Henry Wilson, a drug-user, career criminal, and one of the biggest men Jack has ever met. Henry has been on death row for seventeen years now and his execution by lethal injection is just six weeks away. Jack is convinced that Henry is innocent, but whether he can find a legal basis to delay execution and get Henry a new trial remains the question that may save Henry's life. The clock is ticking, two innocent men are facing the death penalty, yet the one person who Jack most wants to save - his beloved wife, Pat - has the least time of all ...

About this title

About the Author

James Sheehan was born and raised in New York City and grew up in a four-room railroad apartment with his five brothers and sisters. He started working at the age of twelve, shining shoes at a local shoe repair shop. At fourteen, he had a newspaper route. During school, he worked at a local delicatessen, an antique store where he stripped and delivered furniture, as a construction worked during the summers, a short-order cook throughout his college years, and as a roofer's assistant while he attended graduate school in Florida. He is currently a trial attorney in Tampa, where he's practised law for many years. His experience of growing up in New York has shaped his life.

From the Back Cover

Henry Wilson, a career criminal and the biggest man Jack has ever seen, has been on death row for seventeen years. His execution by lethal injection is just eight weeks away.
Small-time crook Benny Avrile takes part in a high profile robbery that ends in murder. The cops are in hot pursuit.
Both men will rely on trial lawyer and death-row advocate Jack Tobin to represent them. But dark clouds are on the horizon for Jack and his beautiful wife Pat.
Will the Law of Second Chances come into play for any of them?
Crime, dark secrets and a desperate race against time combine in a gripping legal thriller that is almost impossible to put down.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593057724
• ISBN 13: 9780593057728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432