Pleasantville

Publisher Marketing: In this sophisticated thriller, lawyer Jay Porter, hero of Attica Locke s bestseller "Black Water Rising," returns to fight one last case, only to become embroiled once again in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to win. Fifteen years after the events of "Black Water Rising," Jay Porter is struggling to cope with catastrophic changes in his personal life and the disintegration of his environmental law practice. His victory against Cole Oil is still the crown jewel of his career, even if he hasn t yet seen a dime thanks to appeals. But time has taken its toll. Tired and restless, he s ready to quit. When a girl goes missing on election night, 1996, in the neighborhood of Pleasantville a hamlet for upwardly mobile blacks on the north side of Houston Jay, a single father, is deeply disturbed. He s been representing Pleasantville in the wake of a chemical fire, and the case is dragging on, raising doubts about his ability. The missing girl was a volunteer for one of the local mayoral candidates, and her disappearance complicates an already heated campaign. When the nephew of one of the candidates, a Pleasantville local, is arrested, Jay reluctantly finds himself serving as a defense attorney. With a man s life and his own reputation on the line, Jay is about to try his first murder in a case that will also put an electoral process on trial, exposing the dark side of power and those determined to keep it." Review Citations: Audio File 08/01/2015 pg. 47 (EAN 9781481534918, Compact Disc) Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2014 pg. 57 (EAN 9780062259400, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 02/02/2015 (EAN 9780062259400, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2015 (EAN 9780062259400, Hardcover) Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 25 (EAN 9780062259400, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Romantic Times 04/01/2015 pg. 51 (EAN 9780062259400, Hardcover) Essence 04/01/2015 pg. 58 (EAN 9780062259400, Hardcover) Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 83 (EAN 9780062259400, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Ebony 07/01/2015 pg. 23 (EAN 9780062259400, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Locke, Attica Attica Locke is the author of Black Water Rising, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize; and the national bestseller The Cutting Season, which won the 2013 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She is a coproducer and writer on the Fox drama Empire. A graduate of Northwestern University, she is on the board of directors for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, where she lives. Contributor Bio:  Jackson, J D J. D. Jackson is an award-winning audiobook narrator. His work includes John Grisham s "The Racketeer", Sharon Draper s "The Battle of Jericho", and Walter Dean Myer s "The Autobiography of My Dead Brother", among many others. His narration of Sharon Draper s "Just Another Hero "earned him a 2011 AudioFile Best Voice Award.