The Defence (Eddie Flynn, #1)

by Steve Cavanagh

Night court is the most important court in the city. Every defendant has to be brought before a judge within twenty-four hours of being charged. With three hundred arrests per day in Manhattan alone, that meant an extra court sitting from five p.m. through to one a.m. When the recession really took hold, crime in the city went up. Now Chambers Street ran a criminal court twenty-four hours a day. Justice didn’t sleep in this courthouse, and it hadn’t closed its doors in the last two years.

The truth has no place in a courtroom. The only thing that matters is what the prosecution can prove.

I knew I couldn’t trust the cops or the FBI, but once I had Amy back, Volchek no longer had a hold on me. I could take her and go, and I’d somehow figured out a way to do it—