The Defense

Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer, and found the two jobs are not that different. A year after a disastrous case, he has vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again.

Then Olek Volchek, the head of the Russian mafia in New York, goes on trial for murder and demands Eddie as his lawyer. To make sure he agrees, Volchek has kidnapped Eddie's ten-year-old daughter.

With only forty-eight hours, the media and the FBI watching, Eddie has to draw on every bluff, grift and trick he learned on the street to defend an apparently impossible case. If he loses, he loses everything. The Defense is the first Eddie Flynn legal thriller by Steve Cavanagh, published in the UK as The Defence.