The fourth novel in Michael Nava's award-winning series takes Henry Rios back to his roots when he defends a Latino teenager accused of murder
State senator and mayoral hopeful Gus Peña has been gunned down in the parking lot of a restaurant in East Los Angeles. When Chicano teen and ex–gang member Michael Ruiz is arrested for the murder, Henry Rios takes the case. It's a tough road: As Rios endures a painful break-up with his HIV-positive partner, Josh, Ruiz refuses to help Rios in his defense. But Rios finds inconsistencies in the kid's story, and is sure Ruiz is covering for the real killer.
Peña had a lot of enemies. As Rios tries to build the case for a different killer, he descends into the dark underbelly of Los Angeles—a hotbed of vice and corruption. Caught between his powerful connection to both suspect and victim, Rios races to prevent a terrible failure of justice.
The Hidden Law is the fourth book in the Henry Rios mystery series, which begins with The Little Death and Goldenboy.
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February 19, 2013 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781453297728
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- ISBN: 9781453297728
- File size: 970 KB
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- English
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August 31, 1992
Nava's (How Toum) extremely appealing hero Henry Rios is a gay Chicano criminal lawyer in Los Angeles. At age 40, Rios faces a breakup with his lover of five years, who has been diagnosed as HIV-positive. Meanwhile he is defending a youth accused of murdering a popular politician just returned to public life after a stint in a drug- and alcohol-rehab center. Teenager Michael Ruiz and state senator Gus Pefia were heard arguing violently while both were clients at the rehab center. After Pefia is shot by an unidentified Latino youth, Ruiz is arrested and charged with murder. While tracing the movements of both the victim and his uncooperative client before the crime, Rios tries to accept the increasing distance that has developed between him and his lover, Josh, whose life has come to center around his diagnosis. In direct and eloquent prose, Nava deftly handies the political, legal and cultural strands of his plot while leading Rios through demanding personal terrain in which he must confront issues from his past as well as those of his future. An intricate, satisfying novel. -
January 3, 1994
A gay Chicano lawyer defends the accused murderer of an L.A. politician in Nava's intricate and eloquent novel.
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