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The Local audiobook

  • By: Joey Hartstone
  • Narrator: Robert Petkoff
  • Category: Fiction, Legal, Thrillers
  • Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2022
  • Language: English
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The Local Audiobook Summary

A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas.
 
“A spectacular courtroom thriller that kept me turning pages like the best of Grisham or Turow.” —Michelle King, co-creator of The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and Evil

In the town of Marshall sits the Federal courthouse of the Eastern District of Texas, a place revered by patent lawyers for its speedy jury trails and massive punitive payouts. Marshall is flooded with patent lawyers, all of whom find work being the local voice for the big-city legal teams that need to sway a small-town jury. One of the best is James Euchre.
 
Euchre’s new client is Amir Zawar, a firebrand CEO forced to defend his life’s work against a software patent infringement. Late one night, after a heated confrontation in a preliminary hearing, Judge Gardner is found murdered in the courthouse parking lot. All signs point to Zawar—he has motive, he has opportunity, and he has no alibi. Moreover, he is an outsider, a wealthy Pakistani-American businessman, the son of immigrants, who stands accused of killing a beloved hometown hero.

Zawar claims his innocence, and demands that Euchre defend him. It’s the last thing Euchre wants—Judge Gardner was his good friend and mentor—but the only way he can get definitive answers is to take the case. With the help of a former prosecutor and a local PI, Euchre must navigate the byzantine world of criminal defense law in a town where everyone knows everyone, and bad blood has a long history. The deeper he digs, the more he fears that he’ll either send an innocent man to death row or set a murderer free.
 
The Local is a small-town legal thriller as big in scope as Texas. It crackles with courtroom tension and high stakes gambits on every page to the final, shocking verdict.

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Narrator Robert Petkoff
Length 9 hours 27 minutes
Author Joey Hartstone
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 30, 2024
ISBN 9780593589359

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The publisher of the The Local is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593589359.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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