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Автор: Andrea Hulshult
Язык: Английский
Издательство: Книга по Требованию
Год: 2014
Дополнительные характеристики
Inside a holding cell at the US Marshall's Service, a homeless man awaits an appearance before a magistrate judge. His future is uncertain and his past a haunted reflection of tragedy and pain. His desperation has led him to commit a horrendous act. In Gainesville, Florida, a young attorney enters a federal courthouse expecting a routine appointment to represent an indigent man charged with bank robbery. The appointment is anything but routine. Her new client refuses to tell the court who he is and where he is from. In a small Florida panhandle town, a beloved sheriff publicly protects the citizens who have elected him into office. Privately, he watches over a reclusive and mystical tribe of people who are in possession of an amazing secret and dependant on him to protect them. He is unaware that events unfolding hundreds of miles away have put him on a collision course with the community that he loves. When her client asks her to mail a letter with no return address, the young attorney makes the most impulsive move she has ever made in her life and decides to deliver it in person. Her decision puts her in a position that could potentially get her disbarred as she comes face to face with the sheriff. Her appearance in the sleepy little panhandle town stirs tragic memories surrounding the rape of a twelve year old girl who disappeared over twenty years ago and the deaths of her parents. The letter she delivers opens the floodgates of emotion for several prominent citizens and puts an iconic and very private public official in opposition of the vows he has taken and laws he has sworn to uphold.