The Last Defense

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His last case may cost him everything.

Ethically flexible and beyond caring what anyone thinks, defense attorney Wyatt Jackson has made a career taking the cases respectable lawyers won’t touch. He may look more like a renegade lawyer than a champion of justice, but beneath the rough edges is a stubborn conviction that sometimes doing the right thing means breaking all the rules. Even a stage 4 cancer diagnosis hasn’t changed that.

Federal judge Kate Kincaid wants nothing to do with a lawyer like Wyatt—until her son is kidnapped on a humanitarian mission overseas by a terrorist group. His captors offer Kate an impossible bargain. She must orchestrate the acquittal of Sheikh Mustafa al-Shammari, an Iraqi cleric facing trial for inspiring a suicide bombing. An eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, life for life. She cannot breathe a word about the blackmail or her son will die. And for reasons they won’t divulge, the captors demand that Wyatt lead the defense.