Rivers of Money

After the governor of New Jersey was killed in a helicopter crash, Jack English was asked to represent a state trooper killed in the accident.

It should have been a simple liability case, but unseen political forces didn't want him to dig too deeply or look at the facts too closely.

That's why he ended up covered in gasoline, clinging to a beer cooler, twenty miles out in the Atlantic with a storm coming in and a madman trying to set him on fire.