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Mitchell Graham attended college at The Ohio State University on a fencing scholarship and later when on to earn a law degree. After practicing law for twenty years he went back to school to study neuropsychology. He has represented the United States many times in international fencing competitions and along the way has won or placed in the finals of over eighty-three separate tournaments. He lives in Marietta, Georgia.

A young woman is killed in an “accident” and our heroes are on the trail to discover what really happened. Danger, mystery, and romance abound in this sequel to Majestic Descending

Publishers Weekly

In Graham's muddled second legal thriller to feature John Delaney and Katherine Adams (after Majestic Descending), Delaney, a New York City law professor, welcomes the opportunity to visit Adams, his long-distance lover, in Atlanta, even if the occasion is a melancholy one. Delaney has agreed to resolve the estate of Sarah O'Connor, a former law student and the daughter of his father's partner in the NYPD, who fell to her death off a cliff one night while camping in Cloudland Canyon in north Georgia. This routine assignment turns into anything but after Delaney learns O'Connor apparently stole a file from the federal prosecutor's office where she worked as a summer intern that implicated a major-league bad guy. Improbable action sequences (e.g., a trained psycho killer turns his back on Adams with fatal results) and unconvincing court scenes add up to a subpar effort. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.