A Fool's Gold
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Just a few months out of law school, Bill Merritt takes a job working for a slightly shady but charismatic lawyer named Thaddeus Silk. Only months later, Thaddeus drops dead of a heart attack, and Bill is left to pick up the pieces of his chaotic and poorly managed practice. Before he can even start to make sense of the mess that was Thaddeus's legal life, the police are knocking at his door, and Bill is being accused of fencing stolen treasure. Enter Abby Birdsong and Grady Jackson, two clients of Thaddeus's whose files are among the boxes and papers and bourbon bottles that litter his office. Drug charges had been brought against Abby for carrying two pounds of pot in her bag; and Grady seeks a permit from the state of Oregon to dig for treasure on a local beach. Bill takes on both of their cases, which, on the face of it, aren't related. When the two cases collide in ways that seem too fantastic to be true, Bill finds himself caught in the middle.
How Thaddeus and Bill, Abby and Grady, assorted law enforcement officials and colorful hangers-on overlap and interconnect took Bill another nineteen years to puzzle out. The result is an intricate and original legal yarn with a cast of provincial misfits so peculiar and charming it reads like fiction.
William E. Merritt
Bill Merritt practiced law in Portland, Oregon, for more than a decade, and lives there still. He's the author of Where the Rivers Ran Backward, about his experience in Vietnam.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If you have frequented the Portland, Oregon area and have zipped out to the North Coast, you will recognize the setting for this humorous, unusual tale about an inexperienced lawyer trying to clean up some strange cases leftover from his recently deceased senior partner. Yes, everything in the title is involved, and much more. This is NOT a formula read (I just finished an appalling Grisham book) and, for me, is far better than the reviews I have read. I am in search of Mr. Merritt's other book.