Unfair Discrimination

A committee of creditors hires 3J, one of whom is the leader of a White Nationalist organization on the government’s domestic terrorist list. When the member realizes he will not get paid back everything he is owed, he blames 3J, a black attorney, and opposing counsel, a Jewish attorney. How far will the hater go to get paid back and what steps will he take to do so in the name of White Nationalism?

Here is an excerpt from the book, a flashback to 3J’s teenage years in New Orleans. Enjoy.

A thirteen-year-old girl and her father sat on the front porch of his small, one-story, clapboard house he rented in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. Originally from the Lower Ninth Ward, her father had moved to Tremé when her parents divorced. Since the divorce, the girl and her sister split time between the Lower Ninth and Tremé. The house was blocks from the Louis Armstrong Park and sat on land originally part of a plantation serviced by New Orleans slaves and later developed into the oldest Black neighborhood in New Orleans and perhaps in America.

After the divorce, her mother and father took divergent paths as they tried to carve out new lives as single adults splitting the tasks of raising two kids. Her mother turned to the church for guidance and comfort. Her father turned away. Life lessons the girl received from her parents often conflicted because of…

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Mark Shaiken - author | retired lawyer | photog

Author of the 3J legal thriller series set in Kansas City: "The gold standard of modern legal thrillers." http://markshaikenauthor.com