For April’s Book Club, we’re featuring The common lawyer a novel by Mark Gimenez
Follow our Book Club for Fabulous People by getting yourself a copy of this book and joining the conversation, when we open it on the 30th April 2009. The Common Lawyer is available at all leading bookstores from April 2009 and retails at around R190.00.
Story snippet
Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail bike and spends way too much time drinking beer in the sunshine.
Ambition has never been Andy’s strong point – he prefers to take it easy. That is, until one of Texas’ wealthiest men walks into his office. On the spot, billionaire Russell Reeves retains Andy as his lawyer and, in exchange for some easy legal work, pays him more money than he has ever earned before. Andy’s life is transformed.
But nothing comes for free. Russell is a desperate man whose sole aim is to save his eight-year-son, Zach, who is dying from leukaemia. He is prepared to do anything ~ even if it means putting Andy’s life in danger …
