Start: 11:01 am
End: 1:00 pm
-Reita Pendry
Will be signing copies of her book
China White $13.95
Thursday, February 23 11am-1pm
Washington, D.C. criminal defense attorney Mercy Johnson
has a nose for mischief. When a young college student, John Morrow, hires
her to represent him on heroin smuggling charges, she senses that mischief will
make her job harder than usual. Her instincts prove reliable.
Heroin of a street value of twenty million dollars is the main exhibit in
the trial of United States v. John Morrow. During a recess,
thieves walk out of federal court with the heroin, taking Mercy and Morrow as
hostages. Will Banks, a seasoned narcotics detective, must recover the
heroin and bring the thieves to account.
Mercy and her investigator, Sam Lester, build a defense for Morrow against
the heroin smuggling charges, while Banks grapples with the fear that he may
have arrested the wrong man. Mercy’s nephew, one of Banks’s hand-picked
Narcotics Task Force members, gets drawn into the investigation of the heroin
heist, and a botched sting to recover the heroin nearly costs him his
life. The sting nets a drug dealer who turns informant and leads Banks to
a prominent business owner and his police detective henchman.
Morrow’s college career, his future, everything he has worked for, is one
the line. Mercy must convince Banks and
the federal prosecutor that Morrow is not a part of the heroin conspiracy.
