Publisher's Synopsis
5 X 8 This is a story about a man who risks giving up a rock-solid lucrative career, not to mention a sterling reputation as an officer of the courts, and going to federal prison for many years, then living his remaining years in ruin. It is about a man facing the challenge of doing the right thing, choosing the harder course. Adriana Cortezi, the beautiful little eleven-year-old girl, whom he had never met, and whom everyone who did know her loved. Danial Bellar, an incorrigible pedophile, a kind of human animal he had dealt with maybe twenty times in his career as a prosecutor. This human-form as no business on the sunlit streets of freedom, and yet...These two diametrically opposed characters, coming together as resin and catalyst, had drawn that line in the sand he knew he would have to cross. When does a true patriot step over that mandated line in the sand, which every patriot knows he must cross, when our Republic and our Constitution are threatened with imminent destruction? He had taken the oath, he was a man of integrity. How does the American criminal justice system become so corrupted that right and wrong, good and evil, innocence and guilt, all take a second seat to winning? When did the practice of law become a game to be mastered by criminals? Why do we wait, invariably, for the horse to be three miles away before we go out and shut the barn door? John Blanchard, peering at his own version of that barn door, knew he had to make every effort to shut it, and shut it soundly...
