A sophisticated legal thriller that plunges listeners into the debate
within the US government surrounding the imprisonment of thousands of
Japanese-Americans during World War II.
When the news broke about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Caswell
"Cash" Harrison was all set to drop out of law school and join the
army...until he flunked the physical. Instead, he's given the
opportunity to serve as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. He
and another clerk stumble onto a potentially huge conspiracy aimed at
guiding the court's interests, and the cases dealing with the
constitutionality of the prison camps created to detain
Japanese-Americans seem to play a key part. Then Cash's colleague dies
under mysterious circumstances, and the young, idealistic lawyer is
determined to get at the truth. His investigation will take him from the
office of J. Edgar Hoover to an internment camp in California, where he
directly confronts the consequences of America's wartime policies.
Kermit Roosevelt combines the momentum of a top-notch legal thriller
with a thoughtful examination of one of the worst civil rights
violations in US history in this long-awaited follow-up to In the
Shadow of the Law.
