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""A fast-paced legal thriller that will keep you engrossed from the first page."" -Gary Gerlacher, bestselling author of the AJ Docker and Banshee series Unemployed after barely graduating from high school, Bud Boyer's fortunes suddenly change when he flattens two knife-wielding thugs trying to rob him. Moogie, a part-time loan shark, spots the altercation outside the tavern he owns in a Georgia mountain town. Immediately, he hires Bud to collect from deadbeat borrowers. All goes well until Bud falls for the daughter of the town's police chief, and sensing the relationship is getting serious, Moogie reluctantly fires him. Months later, when Moogie unexpectedly announces he's going to close his tavern, Bud persuades Moogie to sell it to him instead and to serve as his business consultant for one year. After Moogie suddenly vanishes, Bud is shocked to learn Moogie has been charged with arranging for the murder of a man who conned him out of $250,000 in a phony horseracing ownership syndicate. When Moogie decides to surrender, he unexpectedly shows up at the tavern and asks Bud to call the police chief, who is now Bud's father-in-law. Their relationship takes another shocking turn when Bud is called as a witness at Moogie's murder trial. With twists you won't see coming, The Shark's Protégé will keep you turning pages to the very end.

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""In a small Georgia town where debts are paid in blood, legacy is the deadliest loan. Another legal thriller smothered in gritty, small-town noir!"" -Cam Torrens, award-winning author of the Tyler Zahn mystery/suspense series ""A fast-paced legal thriller that will keep you engrossed from the first page."" -Gary Gerlacher, bestselling author of the AJ Docker and Banshee series ""Rothman writes with bracing intention and conviction. His knowledge of the subject matter - the novel is half crime thriller, half legal drama - is thorough... . [A] swift and deductive tale that will delight any fan of mobster stories."" -Kirkus Reviews

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After six years as a newspaper journalist and thirty-eight years as a lawyer, Bob Rothman starting writing novels. His debut novel, A Terrible Guilt, was published in September 2024. In the 1970s, Bob reported on the resumption of capital punishment and later, as a lawyer, led a legal team representing a death row inmate in his habeas corpus proceeding. He has served on the American Bar Association Board of Governors, as Chair of the ABA Litigation Section, and as Chair of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project. Bob lives in Georgia, and his favorite vacation spot is Asheville, North Carolina, an eclectic community in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, the home of Thomas Wolfe. He loves it for its extraordinary variety of artists, musicians, restaurants, and breweries.

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