How Town (hardback)
by:
Michael Nava (author)
ISBN:
9780517085981 (0517085984)
Publish date: July 4th 1992
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Edition language: English
Series: Henry Rios Mystery (#3)
The best part of this Henry Rios novel is the ethical, moral and justice dilemma Henry is facing. Rios has made peace with all three of these with pain and time. But the call for help from his estranged sister to defend his childhood best friend brother makes Henry face those issues again. Defending...
The third book in Henry Rios mystery brings Henry back to his home town and his estranged sister, when he is asked to defend a pedophile who has been accused of murder. I was surprised by the amount of animosity I had for the defendant. I despise pedophile as much as I despise rapist. While the back...
[These notes were made in 1992:]. The title is from a poem by e.e. cummings, but this is not just a modern novel, it's an up-to-the-minute one, reflecting today's biggest concerns - AIDS, child abuse, corruption in law enforcement, racism. Rios is a Hispanic Los Angeles lawyer whose lover, Josh, is...