Pre-Owned Conflicts with Interest (Paperback) by Michael Ruddy

Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 333. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 333 p. Sometimes, life can be a poker game with a fortunate stroke of serendipity. Sometimes, it s nothing but incessant bad luck. T.R. Morgan is playing such a game with his most feared situation as a builder: Defect Litigation. It isn t enough that he is still mourning the loss of his beloved wife. Now, he finds himself caught in a nasty lawsuit against Steve Sanderson, a ruthless Bay Area lawyer. As with the death of his wife, T.R. knows he s done nothing wrong, and expects a quick resolution. Later realizing, that nothing involving lawyers and insurance companies implies quick, anything. Instead, he unwittingly gets caught up in the world of human trafficking, cocaine deals, and illicit sex that is taking place behind the closed doors of Sanderson s law firm. It is not a matter, it seems, of when T.R. will lose his company and his home over this lawsuit, but how many times-over? Or will his own gambling habit be his downfall? Can the insurance companies out-play him? And is his new girlfriend, the lovely Catherine, actually who she seems? T.R. s story comes to an explosive climax that no one could have foreseen least of all T.R. himself.