Wolf's Revenge [Paperback]

Leo Maxwell is no ordinary attorney. He spends as much time tracking corrupt politicians and gangland leaders across the Bay area to piece together the facts of a crime as he does crafting courtroom rhetoric. But Leo has never quite recovered from discovering his mothers murdered corpse as a child, or from growing up in the shadow of his brilliant older brother.

InWolfs Revenge, the fifth novel in Lachlan Smiths Shamus Award-winning series, attorney-detective Leo Maxwell seeks an exit strategy from his familys deepening entanglement with a ruthless prison-based gang. Caught between the criminals and the FBI, Leo charts his own path in defending a young woman who was manipulated into brazenly murdering a member of the Aryan Brotherhood in San Franciscos Tenderloin neighborhood. When the consequences strike heartbreakingly close to home, Leo, his brother Teddy, and the rest of the family are forced into a winner-takes-all confrontation with men who dont care how many innocents they harm in achieving their goals. As Leos world collapses, long-held secrets are revealed, transforming his perspective on the aftermath of the tragedy that derailed his childhood and fractured his family twenty-one years ago.

Leo comes to realize theres no such thing as fair play in the battle against a prison gang thats already being punished to the full extent of the law. The question then becomes who will get revenge firstthe Maxwells or the sadistic gang leader who pursues them?The latest novel in Lachlan Smiths Shamus Award-winning series pits underdog defense attorney Leo Maxwell against an unforgiving prison gang