Caught between crooked politicians and their shady advisers and the federal government investigating the corruption, Jason has to find a way to get to the truth he so desperately needs to move on with his life, while doing whatever necessary to make sure he doesn’t end up in jail…or the ground.Īuthor David Ellis isn’t just any attorney turned novelist. Believing there’s no way the timing was a coincidence, Jason sets out to learn the true circumstances behind the informant’s death.īefore he knows it Jason finds himself in an ever deepening web of bribery, extortion, and kickbacks, one that appears to run all the way up to the Governor’s office. He hadn’t taken care of his own and they were dead because of it.īut when he learns that the informant whose call he had been waiting on the night of his family’s deaths was himself killed the same night, Jason is jolted back to life and into action. Not about himself, his business only his grief matters. Not able to shake the loss – and the thought they’d still be alive if he had been driving – Jason has hit a place in his life where he simply doesn’t care anymore.

Their car skidded off the icy road along the way, killing both. While he was in his office late one winter night waiting for a phone call from an informant, Jason’s wife, tired of waiting for him to come home as promised, packed their infant daughter in the car and headed out for a planned visit to her parents. Except something went terribly wrong at the end of the trial. Following a case in which his strategy was the key in securing the acquittal of a State Senator from federal murder charges it seemed as if the sky was the limit for his future. Jason Kolarich was once an up-and-coming young defense attorney at one of Chicago’s highest profile private law firms. “You take care of your own, or you can’t look at yourself in the mirror.” – Jason Kolarich

Breach of trust by david ellis