Danger Road: A True Crime Story of Murder and Redemption.

• Position: Brief article - Book review

Danger Road: A True Crime Story of Murder and Redemption By John P. Contini

Danger Road: A True Crime Story of Murder and Redemption recounts Florida Bar member John Contini's defense of Gil Fernandez, Jr., a former Miami-Dade police officer and "Mr. Florida" bodybuilding champion, kickboxer, and black belt karate instructor.

Fernandez was charged with an execution-style triple murder in 1990 and was also alleged to have been a soldier for the mob in South Florida. As many as eight other members of his own crew of alleged extortionists and body builders were murdered two at a time with no forensic clues, fueling law enforcement's theory that the murders had the "signature of a policeman," and that Fernandez, an ex-cop, was "systematically eliminating witnesses against him." A year before his indictment and arrest, Fernandez had become a professed born-again Christian, a redemption that begins to figure prominently in Contini's own life.

Contini gives readers insider perspective on...