Sandro Luca is a crusading young attorney with a family past that links him with the mob. Now the state wants him to defend two junkies who probably killed a cop. They're as good as convicted already. The papers have seen to that. If Sandro is going to save them, he's got to produce evidence that nobody thinks is there. And he's got to be the best, toughest lawyer New York has ever seen.
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