Indefensible (45 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Lee Goodman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Goodman, Lee.

 Indefensible : a novel / Lee Goodman. — First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.

  pages cm

 1. Legal stories. I. Title.

 PS3607.O577I53 2014

 813'.6—dc23

2013032300

ISBN 978-1-4767-2800-1

ISBN 978-1-4767-2802-5 (ebook)