A shootout at a Tim Hortons ends in the death of a four-year-old boy. The shooter was a lifelong criminal named Dewey, but his buddy Larkin, another of life’s losers who had picked up the pistol and ran away, is arrested the next day. Dewey’s lawyer comes forward and tells the Crown prosecutor, Ralph Armitage, that Dewey will tell the authorities where the murder weapon is in exchange for an assurance he won’t be prosecuted. Detective Ari Greene thinks the deal is bad, and the affidavit the lawyer submitted is inconclusive. When a young Romanian undocumented worker, Dragomir, who saw the whole thing, reads that Dewey’s made a deal, he knows he has to say something. He approaches Armitage and tells him he has the wrong man, that Dewey did it. Knowing he was in over his head and that he was prosecuting the wrong man, Armitage sweeps Dragomir’s information aside in an attempt to bury the truth. A mistrial lets Armitage pass off the second trial to someone on his staff and put the whole mess behind him. However, Greene finds Dragomir and sees that justice is done. Once again, another great book by this author, who is a trial lawyer in Toronto and a very talented man.
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