Attorney Will Chambers fought for justice for his clients in Craig Parshall's first two novels: the popular Resurrection File--hailed as "powerful" by Tim LaHaye--and the harrowing Custody of the State. But now, in The Accused, Will must grapple with the terrifying temptation to execute justice for himself--by avenging the brutal crime that shattered his past. A honeymoon in Cancun. What could be more romantic? But the happiness of attorney Will Chambers and his wife, Fiona, is ambushed by two unexpected events: a terrorist kidnapping of a U.S. official...and a phone call telling Will that a link has been found to the previously unidentified murderer of his first wife. As the newly married lawyer struggles with these terrible events, one of them thrusts him into a new legal case. A secret U.S. team had tried to thwart the Cancun kidnapping, and the Marine colonel who led it, Caleb Marlowe, has now been court-martialed for the murder of unarmed civilians--disavowed and hung out to dry by the White House. At the mercy of international politics, Marlowe is ping-ponged from a military court to both a Senate subcommittee and the International Criminal Court, with Will arguing his defense. And when the disguise is ripped away from past treachery and callous betrayal, both Will and his client must ask, Is forgiveness real?--or face a debacle ending in bloody vengeance. The Accused is a legal thriller that recounts a man's epic confrontation of evil from his past--and reveals the power of God through forgiveness.
