About Blood on Their Hands
Meet Hiram Garbuncle, a seasoned criminal defense attorney with an unquenchable thirst for money and liquor, supplemented by sports and sex. His life is a delicate balance between law’s hallowed halls and the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
Across town, Alec Monceau is eking out a living as a computer salesman, striving to support his daughter’s family in Trinidad. In the pivotal year of 2008, his car sport an Obama bumper sticker—a seemingly innocuous political endorsement that draws him into a terrifying ordeal of an unjust traffic stop and a savage police assault.
Garbuncle, an avowed alcoholic and cynic, finds himself torn between his miserly instincts and a compelling pro bono case. His certainty of a triumphant defense makes him reckless, leading to a mistrial. But when he unearths damning evidence against the police officers, his mission mutates: It’s no longer just about winning a case; it’s about ensuring survival for himself and his client, while a new trial looms.
Blood on Their Hands forges a mesmerizing narrative from suspense and thrills, sharp twists and comic relief, and riveting courtroom drama. Amid the intense action sequences and scenes intimating lust, humor rises like a benevolent phoenix, lightening the deep pathos of a tragic love story.
This tale teems with vibrant characters, piquant dialogue, mesmerizing twists and turns, and a wrenching moral dilemma, delivering a message that resonates in our time.
But at its heart, “Blood on Their Hands” is a transformative journey—a poignant saga of redemption against all odds. Prepare to be enthralled, amused, and deeply moved by this remarkable novel.
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Learn More About The Author
Bob (Robert) Brink was born on the shores of Lake Michigan in Muskegon, Mich., and was so precocious that he soon learned to walk on water (subject of his next novel, a fantasy — kidding, kidding). He relocated with his parents at age 6 to their home state of Iowa, growing up around Des Moines and moving to a small farm at age 14, where he learned to pick corn, considerably less exciting than an aquatic ambulatory adventure. After a torturous coming-of-age, he embarked on a newspaper career that took him to Joliet, Ill., Chicago, Milwaukee, Tampa and West Palm Beach, in which vicinity he lived for a number of years before moving in September 2023 to Clearwater, Fla. He garnered several writing awards, and the magazine where he was copy chief and feature writer won an award for Best Written Magazine in Florida. In early middle age, Brink learned to play clarinet and tenor saxophone, and performed many years in a symphonic winds band while also doing a few big band gigs. He learned ballroom dancing and is a health enthusiast, blogging on alternative health care along with grammar, socio-politics, and his and others’ authorial activities. While doing freelance writing and editing, he became an author, ghost-writing a book, turning out a book of short stories, and completing three novels. The latest, BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, is a legal thriller about a racist, miserly attorney pressured into defending a black man from a false police charge of resisting arrest. After discovering incriminating information about the officers, his main challenge becomes keeping himself and his client alive. Brink was able to terminate his contract with traditional publisher TouchPoint Press, and published a Second Edition, including a new cover, with Amazon KDP. Brink’s previous novel, MURDER IN PALM BEACH: THE HOMICIDE THAT NEVER DIED, achieved best seller status with Amazon Kindle in its Second Edition. It is a roman à clef about a real, highly sensational murder that occurred in 1976. In early 2020, the six children of the victim reversed themselves and petitioned the governor of Florida for a full pardon for the karate expert who spent 15 years in prison, convinced he was innocent. New information has come to light, and a reopening of the investigation may be on the near horizon.