Robert P. DesJardins

I have practiced law in southern California for over thirty-five years and have been recognized as one of the best lawyers in southern California in a number of independent publications. I have extensive courtroom experience and have served both as a private judge and as a Judge Pro Tem. I have contributed to non-fiction publications for the State Bar of California and have published two novels before Land of the Saints.

A Darker Shade of Orange received favorable reviews from Orange Coast Magazine, The Los Angeles Daily Journal and the Orange County Register.

Western pleasure horseback riding, travel and politics filled my leisure time for a number of years. My annual horse roundups in Eastern Arizona inspired my most recent project, Land of the Saints. My first novel, The Mistral, was set in France and addressed politics and the lessons to be learned from the French misadventures in Algeria and Indochina.

A Darker Shade of Orange, which addresses politics, the law, and corruption on a local level, takes place in my own backyard in Southern California.