Con Law

John Bookman—Book to his friends—is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin.  He rides a Harley and wears jeans and cowboy boots and his hair too long to suit the conservative dean.  He’s thirty-five, handsome and unmarried but seldom without a female companion.  He teaches karate and Con Law, law school vernacular for Constitutional Law.  He is a recognized constitutional law expert, debates senators on political talk shows and reduces them to blithering fools, writes scathing op-eds, and is often mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee.  He is famous for taking on lost causes and winning.  Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from lost causes around the country seeking his help.  Some letters are funny, others are sad, most are hopeless.  But every now and then, one letter captures his attention.  Then, with only his latest law school intern in tow, Professor Bookman takes off on yet another adventure—not in search of ancient artifacts like Indiana Jones, but in search of truth and justice—"or as close thereto as the law allows."  In this first installment of a new series, Book investigates a murder in the world of art and fracking in Marfa, Texas.