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A Fool's Gold : A Story of Ancient Spanish Treasure, Two Pounds of Pot, and the Young Lawyer Almost Left Holding the Bag
A Fool's Gold A Story of Ancient Spanish Treasure Two Pounds of Pot and the Young Lawyer Almost Left Holding the Bag Author:Bill Merritt Six months after Merritt joined the law practice of the delightfully corrupt (and memorably named) Thaddeus Silk, Silk died of a heart attack. It might have been a promising development for Merritt--just months out of law school, he'd inherited an entire firm--except Silk's office was soon under investigation from both the Oregon Bar Association... more » and the cops. Merritt was quickly implicated in Silk's shenanigans, and things got worse when he took the case of a dope smoker named Abby Birdsong. Birdsong rented a storage locker containing somewhere between one and four tons of marijuana--all of which was for her own personal use, naturally. Merritt's other major client was completely insane, digging for sunken Spanish treasure on the Oregon coast--treasure that he may have found and then fenced through Silk. This is at once a fascinating portrait of Oregon and a rollicking, frequently hilarious true-crime caper, and Merritt's forthright and funny self-deprecation makes it the rarest sort of story: the kind where you root for the lawyer. And with its world-class cast of eccentrics, Merritt's Oregon makes Carl Hiaasen's Florida look mundane. John Green« less