False Prophet: Volume 1 (Jack Stories) - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

False Prophet is a gritty insider's expose' of the corruption of the political and legal system. It's also a love story about healing wounds and redemption.

Jack Ross is in a downward spiral. He leaves a prestigious law firm out of idealism and personal pique. Then, his wife leaves. His partner abandons him for alcohol rehab. Jack falls from the top of the legal pecking order to become a desperate bottom-feeder. Salvation seems to appear in the form of a mountainous African-American preacher who claims to be a prophet. The case, at first, seems to be just a matter of black folks and their store-front preacher being forced out of a neighborhood through gentrification. But the pursuit of justice turns up a political conspiracy, real estate racial red-lining, kidnapping, and murder. Jack is forced to turn for help to a hustler and petty criminal and to an ambitious female reporter. A high price must be paid by all of them to learn the truth of Reverend Brown's prophecy.

False Prophet is set in Indianapolis, where the author practiced law for 30 years and was deeply involved in local politics and the Bar. The legal case in the book involving the persecution of an inner-city preacher is inspired by one the author handled early in his career. It taught him that with grit and determination and, when people of different colors work together, justice can be done. The love story is one of frustration and self-destruction, but ultimately understanding, reconciliation, and a renewed intimacy.

Jeff Rasley is a member of the US Supreme Court Bar and practiced law in Indiana and the federal courts for 30 years. Characters and events are fictional, but based on Rasley's experience of representing clients ranging from Fortune 500 CEOs to crooks and crack heads.

Jeff Rasley is the author of thirteen other books, including Godless; 72 Wisdoms; A Hitchhiker's Big Adventure; Monsters of the Midway 1969; Love, Murder, and Pickleball; Island Adventures; Hero's Journey; Bringing Progress to Paradise; and You Have to Get Lost Before You Can Be Found.

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