The Last Methuselah eBook

InThe Last Methuselah: I Do Solemnly Swear, Joleen McGregor continues reading the manuscript bequeathed to her by the late Nathaniel John Smith, her neighbor. In it, she learns about his days as a young man just out of law school in the early 1970s. Mr. Smith is an untried lawyer plunged into the arena of prosecuting drug criminals for the state of Florida. During a time when drug dealers were inundating the state with cocaine, he uses innovative legal strategies to prove guilt and secure convictions, all while maneuvering his way through new and untested laws for wiretapping.

Told from the perspective of the prosecuting attorney, Gordon Pierce's second installment ofThe Last Methuselah describes the making of precedent-setting cases both from a pretrial perspective and the unfolding drama of the trials themselves. Between having to subpoena a beautiful green and yellow macaw as a witness and outwitting a dirty judge who tries to derail everything, Nathaniel John Smith's first major case takes some unexpected turns.

Joleen is driven by the questions that have lingered with her since the reading of Mr. Smith's will: Why was she chosen for this journey, this task? What does this book have to do with her? And why does she feel as though she is somehow tethered to its author? With each page, she gets closer to the answers, but is she really ready to learn the truth?