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à-têtes between attorneys, and an explosive courtroom conclusion, Gimenez effectively weaves elements of race, class, and justice into a story of a lawyer who rediscovers the difference between doing good and doing well.”

—Library Journal (starred review)

“Fast-paced and thought-provoking.…A well calibrated contemporary morality play.”

—Booklist (starred review)

“Gimenez’s debut has plenty of twists and flashes of humor. A promising, distinctive new voice.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Engrossing…. A book for your friends who like to devour legal thrillers like popcorn.”

—Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio

“Gimenez does a fine job with the plot; lots of twists and the courtroom scenes are great.”

—The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2006

Copyright © 2005 by Mark Gimenez

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2005.

Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:

Gimenez, Mark.

The color of law : a novel / Mark Gimenez.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Rich people—Crimes against—Fiction. 2. African American women—Fiction. 3. Attorney and client—Fiction. 4. Public defenders—Fiction. 5. Trials (Murder)—Fiction. 6. Dallas (Tex.)—Fiction. 7. Prostitutes—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3607.I456C65 2005

813'.6—dc22

2005045447

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eISBN: 978-0-307-27815-9

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