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Young, inexperienced Attorney Ami Vergano becomes embroiled in a wild conspiracy case that ends up in murder and she's forced to defend a man who is not who he said he is and has a dark past that he will not tell her about. She uses her wits and sharp mind to stumble through the first phases of the trial while waiting for a criminal attorney to come and take over the case. Interesting!!

It's a beautiful summer night in Portland Oregon Ami Vergano, a young attorney and single mother, arrives at her son's Ryan Little League game with theie tenant and new friend Dan Morelli. When the assistant coahc calls in sick, Morelli seems happy to help out. But then one player roughly blocks another, and a fight erupts. Before the game ends, Amy witnesses violence that shocks and horrified her and makes her question everything she thought she knew about Morelli. On the other side of the continent, in a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C.ex-mental patient Vanessa Kohler, a reporter for EXPOSED, a tabloid that specializes in alien-abduction stories, watches a piece on television about the Little League massacre and quickly places a call to the FBI> For years she's been telling everyone who will listen about a vast government conspiracy to conceal a secret military unit by Gen Morris Wingate, a presidental candidate, and for years everyone has dismissed her stories. But when Vanessa sees Dan Morelli fighting, she believes she's found the key to proving her theories are true. Vanessa hires Ami Vergano to represent Morelli, who is charged with attempted murder, and Ami is drawn into Vanessa's paranoid world. Are Vanessa, a former mental patient and Morelli a confessed mas murderer, telling the truth about one of the nation's most respected soldiers and popliticans? Or are theri charges a product of two sick minds? Ami has to decide who-and what-to believe.

Well defined and interesting characters. The story line held together, but was very standard right-wing zealot/CIA/Vietnam conspiracy type stuff. Not quite as challenging to the reader as "After Dark" was, but still a good read.

Not typical of the type of book that I would like.... military thriller/mystery, however, I couldn't stop reading this one. Overall, very good and interesting story lines.

Very good read, moved fast and you had to keep up!