The Treaty

About the Book

A wry novella about an ordinary working-class man who, thinking he is getting a lucky break, finds himself in a legal morass which he cannot control. George Wilson is a partner in a Canadian gay marriage. His multi-national employer transfers him to a state in the US which refuses to recognize his marriage. His fledgling lawyer finds an obscure US - Canada treaty which she says trumps the state law, and sues. The situation devolves into legal machinations, political controversy, a diplomatic crisis, violence and death. Ultimately, he has to find his own solution because the legal system fails him. The 1981 treaty quoted in the book actually exists.

About the Author

Donnelly Wright Hadden is a lawyer residing with his wife in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He practices environmental and toxic tort litigation, mostly in the Detroit metropolitan area. He has represented Canadian clients and, on two occasions, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment in trans-boundary cases. He has a B.A. from Michigan State University in political science with a journalism minor, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. His published writings up to now have been in professional books and journals. He has not before this novel, since undergraduate days, intentionally written any fiction.