The Blackstone Commentaries

✍ Scribed by Riggan, Rob

• Book ID: 108573458
• Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 365 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780895873453

✦ Synopsis

When Charlie Dugan, tough but fair-minded sheriff of Blackstone County in western North Carolina, receives a call to investigate a shooting one night, what he finds is a family whose car has been shot up in an apparent case of mistaken identity. What he also learns is that the driver of the vehicle from which the shots were fired may have been "Doc" Pemberton, wild but popular surgeon, county commissioner, and member of an old politically powerful family. It was Pemberton who, years before, procured Dugan his first job in the county, as a deputy, and later urged him to run for sheriff. The two have always had a wary respect for each other, as they used each other for their mutual political ends.

Dugan is up for election for his third term, an expected shoo-in for the popular sheriff, and because no one was hurt in the shooting, he is strongly urged to simply list the investigation as "pending," and let it drop. But the outrage of the family whose lives were threatened and car...