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THE TESTIMONY OF TWO WITNESSES
a novel by Jack Quinn
Recently returned from suspension to practice law, criminal attorney Jacob Cotnoir is coerced into representing an old Frenchman accused of murdering elderly Georges Vachon, French Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations. Jake initially believes the impending high-profile trial could restore him to his previous fame and fortune, until his client refuses to divulge his identity, his background, or participate in his own defense.
Frustrated by the old man’s intransigence, Cotnoir launches an investigation that leads him to Paris, Normandy, and the French Riviera, where he discovers his client's identity and estranged daughter, yet more questions than answers regarding his guilt or innocence of murder. During the trial, the widow of the victim and the daughter of the accused testify for the prosecution, telling damning, conflicting versions of the same story, so enraging the defendant that he insists on taking the stand, over Jake’s vigorous objections.
In so doing, the accused murderer relates an incredible, sixty year-old tale of unswerving love, intrigue, integrity, and defiance during World War II. His admittedly culpable testimony describes his involvement in the French Resistance, rescuing French Jews from the Holocaust, and the theft of a secret Nazi/Vichy document that could create havoc in U.S. and French governments today.
When Jake learns that the district attorney and shadowy Federal agents are competing with a group of neo-Nazis to ensure the defendant’s incarceration or murder, he becomes determined to save the heroic old man from death, or spending his waning years in prison--but is baffled at how he can extricate his client from a high security courtroom, and imminent transfer to Federal custody for prosecution for treason. Cotnoir’s ultimate dilemma is whether to allow a guilty verdict for his client to stand, or conspire with the Jewish Defense League to extricate the old man from his predicament, by circumventing the American judicial system.
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