Implied Consent.

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Implied Consent

By Cody Fowler Davis

Tampa trial lawyer Cody Fowler Davis has written his second novel pitting good lawyer against bad, and there's no doubt who the villain is from the novel's opening line.

Justin Cartwright III, a win-at-all-costs trial lawyer, stands before the Florida Supreme Court, as the chief justice sternly tells him his license to practice law is suspended for two months.

Since Cartwright has to turn over his current caseload, he has time to sit back in his "oversized leather swivel chair, the command center of his own personal ship" and plot revenge against Anderson Parker, once his protege who helped land him in ethical hot water.

Payback involves hiring sexy paralegal Nicole, who is enlisted to carry out an evil mission to destroy Cartwright's straight-arrow rival, Parker. Complicating Parker's personal life is that his wife is miffed that he's spending too much time in the office, too focused on seeking...