The startling novel of a district attorney who, twelve years after sending a convicted murderer to Death Row, returns to the same courtroom to try to save that same man's life. A masterly tale of murder, guilt, and infidelity, set in Florida and featuring the rarest of heroes - a criminal lawyer with a conscience.
Can Ted Jaffe represent a murderer he once prosecuted? The legal establishment insists he can't. Final Argument is about Jaffe's war - at the risk of his career, his marriage, and his personal safety - to free a man he believes he has grievously wronged.