COLUMBUS AND BROADWAY

About the Book

New law grad Denny Martel is drawn into the life of North Beach and San Francisco in 1966. Angela, the beautiful brilliant psychotherapist turned stripper, and May, Vogue cover model and heroin addict provide romance and danger. Denny represents Claudia, the woman he left in L.A., in a real estate deal in Chinatown while a gang war rages. Denny navigates the treacherous landscape and the intertwined lives of three beautiful, complicated, and dangerous women involving him in intrigue and homicide while, in the background, a conservative San Francisco rapidly evolves into an international center of all things.

About the Author

David Lafaille, the author, was a public defender for nine years in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the firm Lafaille, Chaleff and English, which was one of the preeminent criminal law practices in California. His criminal law experience includes numerous felony trials and over three hundred homicide cases. In 1969, the Los Angeles Public Defender’s office was the “firm” of choice for the best and the brightest trial lawyers and many legendary trial lawyers trained there.