African American, Virginia lawyer, Malcolm Bannister starts out this story saying: “ I am a lawyer, and I am in a federal prison camp near Frostburg, Maryland. It’s a long story. I’m forty-three years old and halfway through a ten -year sentence handed down by a weak and sanctimonious federal judge in Washington D.C.”
Both federal judge Raymond Fawcett and his secretary were recently found shot in the head in his cabin in southwest Virginia. Near the bodies was an empty open safe.
Bannister tells the feds that he can identify the killer for them in exchange for a release from jail and the means to start a new life. An agreement and plan is set up and acting on information from Bannister, the FBI arrests Quinn Rucker. Bannister is released and given a new face and identity as Max Reed Baldwin and put in the witness protection program. . After the FBI discovers that Rucker's gang knows Bannister's whereabouts and is seeking revenge, he leaves the program and goes off the radar. He then meets another man he had met in prison, Nathan Cooley who is pulled into the scheme that Bannister has put together.
Another can’t put it down story full of twists and some real insight into the penal system.
