Against the Wind Author: J. F. Freedman
	Book Information Publisher: Signet Book Book Type: Mass Market Paperback Rating: 25 ISBN-13: 9780451173089 - ISBN-10: 0451173082 Pages: 456

Will Alexander, a brilliant, flamboyant defense lawyer out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, fiercely believes that society's underdogs don't always get a fair shake in the criminal justice system. At a low point in his life he is unexpectedly thrust into a case that will severely test this convictions. Alexander is embroiled in a second divorce, while his first wife is leaving Santa Fe with their ten-year-old daughter, Claudia, the only person who matters to Will. His drinking and sexual adventures, always a matter of concern, are now out of control, and his partners in the law firm he founded are about to force him out. Amidst this ruin, Alexander meets with the men who will become his clients - four desperados who live beyond society's edge, member of the outlaw Scorpion motorcycle gang. The four, including their leader, a charismatic and colorful man known as Lone Wolf, have been accused of a grisly murder. They insist, against mounting evidence, that they didn't do it. The more Will gets to know the accused, the more he feels that, despicable though they may be, they are innocent of this particular crime. And now Will and the tem of lawyers he gathers around him are the only ones who stand between the outlaw bikers and their execution by the state.