Navigating the World of Crime and Drama

Meet Hiram Garbuncle, a seasoned criminal defense attorney with an unquenchable thirst for money and liquor, supplemented by sports and sex. His life is a delicate balance between law’s hallowed halls and the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Across town, Alec Monceau is eking out a living as a computer salesman, striving to support his daughter’s family in Trinidad. In the pivotal year of 2008, his car sports an Obama bumper sticker—a seemingly innocuous political endorsement that draws him into a terrifying ordeal of an unjust traffic stop and a savage police assault.

Dramatizes a sensational, real murder that traumatized the peaceful, posh, oceanside town. In the thin guise of fiction, the book contains shocking new information never before made public. Author Bob Brink, an award-winning journalist, was a newspaper reporter in the locale where the assassination occurred. It made media headlines for 15 years, from 1976 to 1992. The case made the media spotlight again with the request by the victim’s family for a pardon of the convicted man.

As a child growing up in various cities and towns, Britt Rutgers exhibits both acute sensitivity and an insatiable ebullience that expresses itself in rebelliousness against his restrictive parents. But something profoundly important is missing deep inside. As he moves into his late teens in the 1950s on a farm near Mayfield, Iowa, his enthusiasm gradually morphs into agonizing self-consciousness, feelings of guilt, embarrassment over sexual naïveté, and fear wrought by his fundamentalist religious upbringing. His parents have always placed his quiet older brother on a pedestal, and Britt begins to emulate him....