An Explosive Secret. An Invaluable Code. An Unreliable Witness. Three ambitious law students at a local legal aid clinic watch as their routine case representing a man named David Hoffman ignites an incendiary trail of deception and betrayal. A member of the witness protection program, Hoffman has defrauded the government and eluded the Mob's pursuit of his stunning secret: a coded algorithm capable of crippling the Internet and disarming national security. Because of the intense threat posed by such a code, federal agents want Hoffman dead or alive. But the Mob wants him alive, more than willing to obtain the algorithm by whatever means necessary. And the would-be lawyers-caught in the middle of this deadly triangle-must overcome their differences and work together if they're to survive long enough to graduate. Bestselling author Randy Singer offers up his most dynamic legal thriller yet in a story based on his own real-life experience as an attorney assisting the U.S. Witness Protection Program. With page-turning suspense and heart-stopping twists, False Witness delivers on every level.Editorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyIn this gripping, obsessively readable legal thriller, Singer proves himself to be the Christian John Grisham. At the outset of the tale, bounty hunter Clarke Shealy gets an ominous phone call--a Chinese mafioso has taken Shealy's wife hostage, and if Shealy wants to see her again, he must track down a missing Chinese mathematician, who has discovered an extremely valuable algorithm that could change Internet technology forever. The first half of the novel follows Shealy as he tries to rescue his wife. Then Singer takes readers to a prestigious law school in the Southeast, where three top-notch students work at a legal aid clinic. Supervised by a professor who may not be what he seems, the students find themselves involved with a couple in the witness protection program. The two halves of the novel tie together seamlessly, and Singer introduces Christian faith with a very light touch. The three students--an African-American ex-jock who aims to be the next Johnnie Cochran, a feisty woman who wants to be a prosecutor so she can avenge her mother's brutal death, and a nerdy but endearing math whiz who wants to practice patent law--are especially well-developed. Indeed, readers may want to meet them again in a sequel. (May) Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.From Booklist*Starred Review* A gentle Chinese scientist has discovered a mathematical formula, or algorithm, that could decrypt every Internet encrypting technology. He wants to sell his formula to a responsible Internet firm, rather than to the Chinese or American government, which seem to him equally treacherous, or to a sort of Chinese mafia called the Manchurian Triad. In the bang-up, 100-page opener, Triad operatives pressure a bail bondsman named Clarke Shealy to deliver the Chinese inventor--or they will kill his wife. This conflict sets up Singer's legal thriller, about a law student, Jamie Brock, routinely doing her time in legal aid when she and two colleagues are presented with "David Hoffman," a member of the witness-protection program whom both the FBI and the Triad seem to be after because of what he knows about the algorithm. Great suspense; gritty, believable action; and unnerving scenes of torture make this entry Singer's best yet.John MortCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved