I very much enjoyed this legal thriller written in 1970 but still applicable in today's society. Luis Alvarado is a junky who is arrested, along with a friend, regarding the killing of a police officer on the roof of a housing tenement. Alessandro Luca (Sandro) is one of the two lawyers who take his case. The book is very detailed in dialogue and makes the reader feel like they are sitting in the room, listening. Characters are also fairly well rounded and believable