Good Counsel.

Tim Junkin, a longtime Washington, D.C., lawyer, has authored his second novel, Good Counsel, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Good Counsel follows a lawyer -- Jack Stanton -- on his moral journey from a D.C. public defender who fights hard for his indigent clients, to an expert in client preparation who sets himself up in private practice.

Stanton's skills are in demand and his ambition is soaring, but when he blurs the line between truth and manipulated fact, Stanton finds himself on the wrong side of the law.

Jenkins deftly explores...