Gladiator-At-Law

CAUTION!You are about to enter a world...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and deathwhere the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machineswhere a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machinewhere the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungleIn this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate interests-battles them in board meetings and in dark alleys-in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises of the future...promises we are beginning to make right now.&quote;...wholly admirable, in both thinking and execution.&quote;-Galaxy&quote;Reminiscent in vigor, bite and acumen to THE SPACE MERCHANTS&quote;-Anthony Boucher.&quote;...possessed of a bite and savage vigor which makes it one of the outstanding science fiction novels of the year.&quote;-The New York Times&quote;...a powerfully convincing story.&quote;-New York Herald Tribune