![]() ![]() The absolute contrast between the comfortable, loving family atmosphere, which Densmore does not want to disturb, and the seediness, hostility and antagonism in the nightmarish parallel world he is now inhabiting, could not be more defined. A third party is trying to frame him, and Densmore must undertake some dangerous investigations of his own, if his name is to be cleared and his future returned.Īll this against a backdrop of a family wedding. The cat and mouse games between the lawyer and the police are eye-opening, but insufficient to clear Densmore completely. Thanks to his connections, he is able to retain the best (white) lawyer in town. This gives Densmore time to rally, but it is a real race against time. Marshal Hackaberry wants everything done “legal”, much to the disgust of the ingrained racist officer, Veneer. Suddenly he’s in danger of being accused of illegal abortion and murder.īut the real TROUBLE is that the racist police just want to stitch the case up quickly.įortunately for Densmore the politics of the day hold them in check. Trouble is, he was the last person to see her alive.īigger trouble – she’d obviously just had an illegal and botched abortion, and Densmore is a doctor. Then just days after they arrive in Phoenix, her body is fished from a canal …. Despite his best efforts to drop her by off safely, she keeps returning like a bad penny. From the moment she takes her position in the passenger seat, he knows he has just invited trouble into his life. Driving up from LA, and despite his misgivings, he picks up a young white hitchhiker. Set in Arizona, where segregation is a thing of the past, but racial prejudice most definitely is not, Hugh Densmore is in a precarious position. I wasn’t expecting that of a thriller written in 1963. Actually, it nearly finished me off, my heart was pounding at such an accelerated rate from start to finish. I love being able to start the year reviewing a novel that blew me away. ![]()
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