When Men Betray
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
"Former associate attorney general of the United States and political insider Webb Hubbell masterfully evokes the terrors of a hot, black Southern night—one can practically smell the sweat, hickory, and gunpowder emanating from the book's pages." — Ellen Ratner
After a shocking assassination of a senator on live TV by an unlikely suspect, attorney Jack Patterson reluctantly returns to Little Rock, a town that he swore he would never step foot in again to uncover the motives of the killer. Jack and his ragtag team set off on a race against time to unveil the answers left in a series of strange clues while hired hitmen stand in their way of learning the truth, and the one man who knows everything refuses to talk.
When Men Betray introduces readers into the steamy underbelly of Jack Patterson's world—full of secrets and betrayals underneath the facade of southern BBQ and antebellum. Alliances are tested, buried tensions surface, and painful memories are re-lived as Jack desperately tries to clear the name of an old friend, ultimately realizing that even the oldest friendships can be threatened, when men betray.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hubbell, a former Little Rock, Ark., mayor, puts his experience as a public servant to good use in his ambitious first novel. Washington, D.C. based antitrust lawyer Jack Patterson has struggled to balance professional success with personal turmoil specifically, the death of his wife, Angie. All of that is forgotten, however, when his best childhood friend, Woody Cole, fatally shoots U.S. Sen. Russell Robinson in the rotunda of the Arkansas capitol, on national TV no less. Convinced by Cole's mother to come back to Little Rock, the place he swore never to return to 25 years earlier, this Washington insider is soon representing a killer in court amid a media frenzy. Jack must also contend with professional hit men, as well as the ghosts of his troubled past with the city. While the author overloads the narrative with incident, those with an appetite for a cleverly detailed account of political power dynamics and a modern-day witch hunt will be rewarded.
