Gladiator-at-Law

Caution! You are about to enter a world...

...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death.

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...where the stock market operated with pari-mutuel machines.

...where a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machine.

...where the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungle.

In this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate interest—battles them in board meetings and in dark alley—in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises about the future...promises we are beginning to make right now.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 251 pages

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