Subpoena Colada - Softcover

The decline and fall of a rock star can pull other people with him. A scintillating look at celebrity, glitz, spurious glamour . and jealousy.Danie Tate seems to have it all: a brilliant career as a showbiz lawyer, a high-profile court case making all the newspapers, tons of money and a beautiful actress girlfriend. But things are about to take a turn for the worse. While striving to satisfy the unending demands of his famous clients, and the Partners at his firm, Daniel's personal life begins to unravel first. Hannah Wilde, now star of hit TV soap Skin Trade, leaves him for one of her fellow actors. Meanwhile, a contest for promotion is turning into an ugly feud; his best friend seems to have betrayed him; and a dogged journalist is hounding him for the big scoop.And then Daniel's most imporatant client - legendary Eighties icon Brian Fey - has got himself deeper into legal problems that even Daniel cannot fix. Starting with suspicion of murder.As Daniel finds himself descending deeper into paranoia and obsession, just how far will he go to return things to the way they were before?

Mark Dawson, a London-based lawyer who once DJ-ed at Hacienda, is also author of The Art of Falling Apart, and lives in London.