The Deerslayer Spiral: A Law Firm. a Philosopher. Seven Murders. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781468572742)

Ethan Compton is a handsome, ambitious law student with a beautiful, rich fiancée, the daughter of the senior partner of a prestigious San Francisco law firm. He has left behind a tough early life to find himself with a promising legal career that could make all his dreams come true.

Things change, however, when a young woman is shot to death in the alley behind the trendy Inner Temple Café. Ethan must help defend the murder suspect. Soon he becomes trapped in a murder case wherein he must enter the world of a mind-control expert who causes him to question his own sanity.

A second murder rocks the city. Then, a third. As the killings escalate, Ethan suspects his work is being monitored and sabotaged. But by whom?

Against his will, Ethan is led into a terrifying journey and must wrestle with memories from his brutal military career and his own mother's murder when he was a boy.

With a shocking climax that's impossible to anticipate, The Deerslayer Spiral is a masterful exploration of high-stakes double-dealing with the legal establishment, the justice system and the government. You have never read anything like it.