AWAY GAME: An Alan Knight Legal Thriller

by Edwin Gale

Blood, corruption, courtroom drama, and romance await the reader of this legal thriller.Alan Knight is a hard charging but highly ethical champion of justice who has ambitions of becoming the state’s attorney general and subsequently, a state or federal judge. He leaves federal practice to become the criminal chief for George O’Grady, the incumbent attorney general who will do anything to climb the political ladder to become a United States Senator. Unhappy with Knight’s refusal to bend the law for political purposes, he assigns Knight to an obscure branch office where he is immediately mired in troubles.A staff suicide, the fatal bombing of a key witness, and O’Grady’s interference with a sensitive case involving a mobster present serious problems. However, Knight confronts an even greater challenge from his very first his bright, efficient and stunningly beautiful office manager, Christy Giaquinto. Sworn off women because of a recent divorce, Knight is instantly captivated.Christy, however, is proceeding to fulfill a life-long dream of becoming a Catholic nun and the conflict she experiences between her intended vows to serve God and her romantic feelings toward Alan wear on their relationship, as does another closely held secret. As Knight investigates the relationships between the mob, drug traffickers, and government officials, O’Grady brazenly offers him a chance to succeed him, providing that Knight dismiss prosecutorial efforts against O’Grady’s friends. When Knight refuses, he becomes the target of multiple assassination attempts. As the plot accelerates to its conclusion, Knight forms an alliance with the FBI to bring down a massive conspiracy involving mobsters, New York drug traffickers, and O’Grady. Even hiding out on Cape Cod does not put him beyond the reach of the killers and both Knight and Christy must find ways to protect themselves from certain death.

251 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 6, 2021