Get Hold Of Keep And Bear Arms Formulated By Robert Isham Auler Shared As Booklet

defense twist to the modern courtroom thriller

I've read quite a few courtroom thrillers from the likes of Turow and Lescroart, and Bob Auler's "Keep and Bear Arms" was right up there in characterization, suspense, and interesting topics.


But Auler's tale was different, . . and all the better for it, He told it from the point of view of a bigcity liberal defense attorney, Carl Hardman, who's trying a terrorist case in a small conservative town with a mildly corrupt oldboynetwork legal system.
Sort of like "My Cousin Vinny", but Hardman ain't new at this: he's a washedupsomething lawyer who's not even happy about defending an accused terrorist, but who wants to make sure the guy isn't railroaded into a lethal injection.


I liked Hardman he's real, sympathetic, and driven, He struggles with problems beyond the case, like an exwife, an eleven year old daughter he doesn't get to see as much as he needs, and the hots for his client's sexy wife.
Auler also

does a nice job building out a strong characterization in Brother Bill, the leader of a farright protest group,

"Keep and Bear Arms" tells how an unlikeable Lebanese American is accused of firebombing an old judge, right in the middle of a courtroom, The FBI jumps in and calls it terror, Hardman is sucked into his defense, The farright gets upset that a bigcity lawyer is gonna cut a deal and plots their own mischief, Hardman is fighting with his nasty client, And all the time he's struggling with his convictions about how he's going to defend somebody who he already thinks is guilty,

Auler spins all his characters through twists on the same dilemmaone we should maybe ask ourselves every now and then: how do we put aside our own "gut level" beliefs and prejudices and follow the rules, especially when we have the power to climb above the law Some of his characters are able to surmount this challenge, and some aren'tand it's not the ones you'd expect.


This was a fantastic legal read, and it really made me think on the deeper issues of how the rule of law keeps us human, Thanks, Bob, and keep writing!
From the moment a bomb explodes in midwestern courthouse, all eyes turn to the suspect, It is left to a smalltown lawyer to dig deep to defend an unlikeable guy with some peculiar habits, Written by longtime attorney Robert Isham Auler, it breathes fire and ice, and will even make you laugh on occasion, A firsttime novelist with a lot to say and a great way of saying it, .