Book

The substitution order

Clark, Martin 1959- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 0525656324 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780525656326 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0525656324 : HRD
ISBN: 9780525656326 : HRD
ISBN: 9780525656326
ISBN: 0525656324
Physical Description: print
335 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Borzoi Book" -title page verso.

Summary, etc.:

"From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wickedly clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer's refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists conspire against him. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after an inexplicably tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash and looking for work, he lands in the middle of nowhere with a job at SUBstitution, the world's saddest sandwich shop. His closest confidants: a rambunctious rescue puppy and the twenty-year-old computer whiz manning the restaurant counter beside him. He's determined to set his life right again, but the troubles keep coming. And when a bizarre, mysterious stranger wanders into the shop armed with a threatening "invitation" to join a multimillion-dollar scam, Kevin will need every bit of his legal savvy just to stay out of prison. A remarkable tour of the law's tricks and hidden trapdoors, The Substitution Order is both wise and ingenious, a wildly entertaining novel that will keep you guessing--and rooting for its tenacious hero--until the very last page"--