The Conviction

Publisher Marketing: Lawyer David Sloane is desperate to get through to his troubled teenage son Jake. Still reeling from the devastating loss of his mother in a brutal murder, Jake has spiraled out of control and Sloane has barely been able to keep him out of jail. So when his old friend, detective Tom Molia, suggests that they take their sons on a guys-only camping trip, Sloane gratefully accepts. What Sloane imagines will be the perfect excursion turns into a horrifying nightmare when the boys are arrested for vandalizing a general store late at night while their fathers are asleep. The next morning, before Sloane and Molia even realize they re gone, their sons are tried, convicted, and sentenced by the presiding judge to six months in the county wilderness detention camp, Fresh Start. For the teenagers, a grueling physical and psychological ordeal begins. As Sloane fights the conviction against the boys, he discovers that local judge Earl Boykin s authority seems to extend far beyond the confines of his courtroom. Meanwhile, on the inside, Jake is forced to grow up quickly and soon learns the hard way that this detention center has a very different purpose than rehabilitating troubled youths. With their legal options exhausted, Sloane and Molia will do anything to save their sons even mount a daring rescue operation that could win the boys their freedom or cost all of them their lives." Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/09/2012 pg. 33 (EAN 9781451606720, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2012 (EAN 9781451606720, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Dugoni, Robert Robert Dugoni has practiced as a civil litigator in San Francisco and Seattle for more than twenty-five years and is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest. He is the author of Murder One, Bodily Harm, Wrongful Death, The Jury Master, and co-author of The Cyanide Canary. Dugoni lives with his family in Seattle, Washington. Contributor Bio:  Miller, Dan John Dan John Miller is an American actor and musician. In the Oscar-winning "Walk the Line", he starred as Johnny Cash s guitarist and best friend, Luther Perkins, and has also appeared in George Clooney s "Leatherheads "and "My One and Only", with Renee Zellweger. An award-winning audiobook narrator, Dan has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, has twice been named a Best Voice by "AudioFile "magazine, and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from "Publishers Weekly".