Grif Stockley
Illegal Motion
When Gideon Page agrees to defend Dade Cunningham, a star wide receiver for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, against a charge of rape, he doesn't fully understand the treacherous path the case will take, on campus and off. Dade is black and his accuser is white, and Gideon must now deal with an explosive case certain to arouse media attention in a state obsessed with football - a case that raises uncomfortable questions in his own personal life. (Simon and Schuster, 1995)
Excerpt from Illegal MotionThere is a good crowd tonight, and I stretch my muscles out on the grass of the football field inside the track while gawking at a blonde in pink spandex who is circling the track at a six-minute clip. Although I was a distance runner over thirty years ago at Subiaco Academy, a small Catholic boarding school in western Arkansas, I would be hard-pressed to stay even with her tonight. At five-feet-eleven, I am carrying saddlebags that could take a packhorse across the Rockies. If I were able to knock off fifteen pounds around my middle, I'd be in a position to work out seriously.
Praise for Illegal Motion'A' - Stockley extracts a clear, gripping story. He writes with wit, irony and a good lawyer's intimate understanding of the daily life of the defense bar and the dynamics of trial. Illegal Motion reads like a thriller and reverberates like the news. -- Entertainment Weekly The richness of place and character gives punch to the climactic courtroom scene . . . Illegal Motion will give courtroom drama fans a pleasantly tense few hours. --San Jose Mercury News Stockley knows his stuff. -- Detroit Free Press |
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