Primal Fear
(William Diehl)
For once a novel comes out about a lawyer that does not paint him as some kind of budding civil liberterian hero-to-be or a small time David taking on a Goliath in the form of a multinational company or some other equally easily hated foe in the legal fiction genre.
No readers, William Diehl's Martin Vail is a refreshing breath of honesty into legal fiction as he himself says of the profession. If you want justice go to a whorehouse, if you want to get screwed go to court (his words). The case, A religious figure is murdered and he is forced by the state into defending the accused, Aaron Stampler by virtue of the embarrassing defeat he has handed them in a previous case involving state and federal jurisdiction, a gun and a thug named Joey Pinero.
The case seems cut and dried for the prosecution who readily hands it to legal eagle and Vail's old sparring partner Jane Venable. But when it turns out that the murder victim is not the saint people believed him to be and when it becomes clear that the accused is not the man Vail thinks he is, then the waters are muddied as to what is truth and what is not in this gripping thriller that twists and turns like a killer's knife right until the last page.
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