Story Behind The Book
The story was inspired by an actual trial I did in Marin County in the late 1970s.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">In <em>A Shot in the Arm</em>, Barry Willdorf once more writes up a storm. Just as in the previous installment, <em>Burning Questions</em>, attorney Nate Lewis bumbles his way into a dark murder plot, but it's the reader who gets hooked. Willdorf’s <span>re-creation of period is right on the money, and his characters rock.</span> <span>His trilogy is a brilliant creation! </span>I wasn't able to put the book down.<span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Mark Rudd, author of <em>Underground: My life in SDS and the Weathermen</em></span></strong><span style="font-family:Garamond;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">A fast-moving novel. Plenty of twists and turns. The legal details are sharp; the drinking and drugging and low life neighborhoods are Day-Glo vivid. I was glad to know there’s at least one more novel out there about Nate Lewis and his world. <strong>Meredith Sue Willis, author of <em>Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel</em> </strong>and <strong><em>Out of the Mountains</em> </strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">The latest in Barry Willdorf's noir-ish series is a detective story with a sense of geography, a sense of morality, and a sense of humor. Set in San Francisco in the 1970s and written by a lawyer with street cred who lived through those turbulent times, <em>A Shot in the Arm</em> is also a blast to read. Just add java. <strong>Frances Lefkowitz, author of <em>To Have Not</em>.</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Barry Willdorf knows the lawyer's brain and feels the City's heart, producing a non-stop thrill-ride through San Francisco in the early 70s as a "people's lawyer" and his waitress girlfriend try to escape a web of smack, shady rehab, covert operations and murder. Gripping. Exciting. Add "A Shot in the Arm" to the classic tales of the City by the Bay. <strong>Hilton Obenzinger, author of </strong></span><span class="citation"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Cannibal Eliot</span></em></strong></span><span class="citation"><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> <strong><em>and the Lost Histories of San Francisco </em></strong>and <strong><em>Busy Dying</em></strong></span></span><span class="citation"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">.</span></span></p>