Dead Peasants: A Thriller

About this book

"Just terrific As real as a heart attack and every bit as suspenseful." --John Lescroart New York Times bestselling author of A Plague of Secrets on The Trial Veteran trial lawyer Larry D. Thompson has decades of courtroom experience in his home state of Texas on controversial and important trials. Now in Dead Peasants Thompson has delivered a fast-moving and suspenseful legal thriller featuring a retired lawyer whose life gets turned upside down when a stranger asks for help. Jack Bryant exhausted after a high-profile career as a lawyer takes an early retirement in Fort Worth Texas where he plans to kick back relax and watch his son play football at TCU. But then an elderly widow shows up with a check for life insurance benefits and that is suspiciously made payable to her dead husbands employer Jack cant turn down her pleas for help and files a civil suit to collect the benefits rightfully due the widow. A chain of events that cant be stopped thrusts Jack into a vortex of killings and he and his new love interest find themselves targets of a murderer. Gripping engaging and written with the authority that only a seasoned lawyer could possess Dead Peasants is a legal thriller that will stun and surprise you.