For Travis Runnels every single
day is a knife fight. Being in jail is just an occupational hazard for him. It
is a public defender like Alex Stone who Travis is going to have to rely on to
get him out of a death penalty murder case. The fact that she is a Jew and
lesbian doesn't impress him any more than the fact he is an African-American impresses
her.
It is an election year and
Diego Hernandez is dead. That means the local district attorney, Kevin Watts,
is running a tough on crime reelection campaign and isn't going to deal. Especially
considering Travis’ prison record and the mountain of evidence against him. He
is going to trial and all his attorney can do is sling some mud and hope to put
a shadow or two of doubt in the minds of the jury. Travis and Alex are stuck together
for the duration in more ways than one in Knife Fight: An Alex Stone Short Story by
Joel Goldman.
This short story is a good
one featuring plenty of courtroom action as well as quite a lot of action
outside the courtroom. A number of characters and conflicting motivations are
at work in a story that also offers up quite a few surprises along the way. The
read is a good one.
Knife Fight: An Alex Stone Short Story
Joel
Goldman
Self-Published
ASIN:
B00A1D1I0M
E-Book
22
Pages
$0.99
Author provided a PDF of this short story a very
long time ago for my objective review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2014
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