The Color of Law » (Reprint)

Mark Gimenez grew up in Galveston County, Texas. Once a partner at a major Dallas firm, Gimenez gave it up in order to start his own practice and to write. He lives outside Fort Worth with his wife and two sons.

WHAT IF you had to choose between:your seven-figure salaryyour fancy house in the exclusive suburbyour memberships at a posh health club and even posher country clubyour marriage(not your soul; you ve been renting it out for so long, it s as good as sold)anddoing the right thingAnd what if in doing the right thing, all of the above still wasn t enough and you risked having to pay the ultimate price? This is the choice that Scott Fenney faces when he s assigned a political hot potato of a pro bono defense case in Mark Gimenez s debut legal thriller, The Color of Law.A poor-boy college football hero turned successful partner at a prominent Dallas firm who long ago checked his conscience at the door catches a case that forces him to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing in this masterful debut legal thriller.Clark McCall, ne er-do-well son of Texas millionaire senator and presidential hopeful Mack McCall, puts a major crimp in his father s election plans w...

The Washington Post - Patrick Anderson

It's a tasty plot -- big money, political intrigue, sexy wives, precocious little girls -- but the novel would be a lot less fun without Gimenez's scathing portrait of the city and its most powerful citizens. We're told that lawyers regard rich clients as chickens to be plucked and that judges are there to be bought by campaign contributions. Fenney reflects that every lawyer goes through a metamorphosis "like a caterpillar changing into a butterfly, only in reverse: from a beautiful human being to a slimy lawyer."