Amazon.com Review
Accused begins on the eve of the Fourth of July, 2009, when an off-duty Houston police officer, Tommy Harris, was enjoying a drink at a bar in a neighboring county. Around closing time, Harris escorted a bartender to her car. While watching her drive off, a man in the parking lot threw an unprovoked punch at him. Harris wrapped the man in a bear hug and wrestled him to the ground. The man, a 30-year-old Nigerian immigrant, died within minutes. Deeply distraught over the man’s death, Harris’s agony was just beginning. The overly zealous District Attorney of Fort Bend County, Texas, seized on the case—publicizing it and prosecuting it with the full force of his office--in an attempt to win his upcoming bid for re-election. This Kindle Single tells the story of a man caught between a bungled police investigation and a zealous District Attorney. Paul Alexander’s writing is suspenseful and wonderfully visual as he guides readers deftly through the initial altercation, the police investigation, the autopsy, cause-of-death speculation, legal wrangling, and the stunning courtroom trial. --Paul Diamond
Product Description
Paul Alexander, the bestselling author of the Kindle Single Murdered, introduces us to Tommy Harris, the 14-year veteran of the Houston Police force, his fight with a man outside a bar, a death, and the ensuing homicide trial. The district attorney had boasted, "Anyone can convict a guilty person, but it takes someone really good to convict an innocent one." Did Harris apply a naked choke-hold, or did the district attorney and his forensics team set up Harris?