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![Lethal Defense (The Nate Shepherd Legal Thriller Series Book 1) by [Michael Stagg]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41lnPh5mP8L._SY346_.jpg)
Lethal Defense (The Nate Shepherd Legal Thriller Series Book 1) Kindle Edition
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Attorney Nate Shepherd left a big firm to go out on his own. He sees nothing but opportunity when an out-of-town lawyer wants to hire him as local counsel on a high-profile murder case. Though his family worries that the case hits too close to home, Nate joins the defense team.
When circumstances force him to take on a bigger role, Nate ignores his family’s fears and throws himself into his client’s defense. But as he digs deeper, every aspect of the case raises memories of a terrible event that Nate has tried his best to bury.
Battling an aggressive prosecutor in court and a dogged reporter outside it, Nate fights to prove that his client’s brutal, bloody slaying of an evil victim was right. But when Nate’s own story is exposed, it threatens his client’s freedom … and Nate’s carefully constructed life.
Can Nate fend off his own demons long enough to save his client?
Lethal Defense is the first book in the gripping Nate Shepherd Legal Thriller series. If you like razor-sharp dialogue, iron-willed characters, and slippery moral quandaries, then you’ll love Michael Stagg’s fierce courtroom drama.
Buy Lethal Defense and step into the courtroom today!
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 23, 2020
- File size3632 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B084NT495P
- Publication date : March 23, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 3632 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 416 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,806 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #16 in Legal Thrillers (Books)
- #23 in Vigilante Justice Thrillers
- #32 in Legal Thrillers (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Michael Stagg was a civil trial lawyer for more than twenty-five years. He has tried cases to juries, so he’s won and he’s lost and he’s argued about it in the court of appeals after. Michael was still practicing law when the first Nate Shepherd books were published so he wrote them under a pen name. He writes full-time now and no longer practices, but the pen name has stuck.
Michael and his wife live in the Midwest. Their sons are grown so time that used to be spent at football games and band concerts now goes to writing. He enjoys sports of all sorts, reading, and grilling, with the order depending on the day.
For more information about Michael and his books, sign up for his newsletter at michaelstagg.com/newsletter/ or go to michaelstagg.com.
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characters and the story was well-paced. Didn't want to put it down! It was obvious that Michael Stagg has a background as a trial lawyer, yet he writes in a way that those of us with no legal background can enjoy it.
Going to go get Book 2 now!
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Highly recommend - first book I've read twice!
5* in my humble opinion.
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