Justice Gone by N. Lombardi Jr.
A beaten homeless
vet. Three cops gunned down. A multistate manhunt. The trial of the
decade.
A new kind of
legal thriller
When a homeless
war veteran is beaten to death by the police, stormy protests ensue,
engulfing a small New Jersey town. Soon after, three cops are gunned
down.
A multi-state
manhunt is underway for a cop killer on the loose. And Dr Tessa
Thorpe, a veteran's counselor, is caught up in the chase.
Donald Darfield,
an African-American Iraqi war vet, war-time buddy of the beaten man,
and one of Tessa's patients, is holed up in a mountain cabin. Tessa,
acting on instinct, sets off to find him, but the swarm of law
enforcement officers gets there first, leading to Darfield's dramatic
capture.
Now, the only
people separating him from the lethal needle of state justice are
Tessa and ageing blind lawyer, Nathaniel Bodine. Can they untangle
the web tightening around Darfield in time, when the press and the
justice system are baying for revenge?
N. Lombardi Jr, the N for Nicholas, has spent over half his life
in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, working as a groundwater
geologist. Nick can speak five languages: Swahili, Thai, Lao,
Chinese, and Khmer (Cambodian).
In 1997, while
visiting Lao People's Democratic Republic, he witnessed the remnants
of a secret war that had been waged for nine years, among which were
children wounded from leftover cluster bombs. Driven by what he saw,
he worked on The Plain of Jars for the next eight years.
Nick maintains a
website with content that spans most aspects of the novel: The Secret
War, Laotian culture, Buddhism etc. http://plainofjars.net
His second novel,
Journey Towards a Falling Sun, is set in the wild frontier of
northern Kenya.
His latest novel,
Justice Gone was inspired by the fatal beating of a homeless man by
police.
Nick now lives in
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
http://www.author-n-lombardi-jr.com/
