Lawyer Foster Cobb prosecutes the mysterious Dr.
Winner of the $50,000 Seal First Novel Prize in 1979, William Deverell\'s.
With a racing plot and dramatic flip-flops, Deverell\'s literary page-turner takes the reader into the seamy undergrowth of crooked cops, Asian drug lords, and a super-charged courtroom scene.
But Cobb -- under pressure of a failing practice and a disintegrating marriage -- has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit.
Au, the West Coast\'s primary drug trafficker.
Lawyer Foster Cobb prosecutes the mysterious Dr