Black Water Rising, Locke - B-

                 This was the author's first novel published over a decade ago. The plot involves Jay Porter, a young black lawyer who inadvertently witnesses a crime and because he had had a serious run in with the police when a student a decade ago, decides to just ignore it. Of course, he gets sucked in and has to try and get to the bottom of it. While doing so,  he uncovers some serious environmental misdeeds, and we leave him as he initiates a major lawsuit against the powerful oil establishment of Houston.