“…a legal thriller full of grit and charm and telling details from every link in
the justice system food chain. It is clear from page one that Patrick Hyde intimately
knows this turf. He delivers it with the wit and wisdom of a consummate insider.”
–Michael Connelly, author of The Lincoln Lawyer, The Poet, and Bloodwork

Murder is like real estate. The key to it all is location, location, location. So says defense attorney Stuart Clay, whose client winds up in a high-rent-district uproar after the police find Benny Batiste's head on a Georgetown parking meter. Cleveland Barnes is arrested pushing a shopping cart of cans and wearing bloodied Bally loafers. As the corpse lost both head and shoes, the police book Cleveland for murder.

Stuart thinks Cleveland is a hapless street person who filched some shoes. But homicide Detective Rhondo Touhey disagrees and thinks that some mocking birds are guilty as sin and deserve whatever they get.

Pursuit of witnesses and clues takes the reader on a tour de force of the D.C. criminal justice system. Stuart’s investigation connects a band of homeless New Columbians living under Georgetown's Key Bridge while they await a coming revolution, aging Bronx mobsters outdone by a new generation of graft, the urban renaissance of Washington, D.C., and a plot that fingers Stuart to be its next prey.

EXCERPT FROM PATRIC HYDE'S THE ONLY PURE THING

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