The Magistrate — Ernest K. Gann

The famed storytelling talent of the author of The Aviator, The High and The Mighty and Fate Is The Hunter has never been more powerfully on display than in this tale of one wonderfully good man's personal and professional trial by fire, centering around a court trial that would attack and pound at the bedrock of his very life.

Julian Hitchcock's old-fashioned sense of America was a nation of laws, but the lady with the blindfold and the scales was now under severe attack -- as was his life and career. The magistrate's struggle to preserve her, as well,as his tensely sought personal redemption, form one of Ernest K. Gann's most powerful and moving novels.