Bleedout

How much - or how little - does it take to make a man kill?

Hugh Freyl is the most respected lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. That he is blind only enhances his reputation for truth and integrity: justice should be blind. And yet late one night, in the library of his law firm, he is beaten to death.

There is only one obvious suspect: David Marion, a convicted killer from the wrong side of the tracks. Hugh himself secured David's release from South Hams State Prison, a brutal maximum security penitentiary. David has never seemed grateful.

But nothing in Springfield is as it seems. The richest and most powerful family in town, the Freyls are almost too anxious to send David to death row. And David's desperate attempts to uncover the truth - or is it to cover up his guilt? - lead him to fight with the only weapons he knows: the criminal skills he learned in prison and the savage fury of a hunted man.