REVIEW - Marty Angelo - 03/12/2010  "Danger Road: A True Crime Story of Murder and Redemption" - This thrilling book will hold your attention from the minute your read the first page. Witness the criminal justice system through the eyes of defense attorney, John P. Contini whose life is never the same after defending a high-profile client who only wanted to be represented by a Christian attorney. This is one of those books where it takes so many twists and turns that you can not put it down until you finish it.

Author: John P. Contini

Danger Road rips the curtain off a high profile murder case that has the highest stakes possible: life or death. Then it takes you into the bowels of the justice system and on this journey you go from the darkest, coldest heart to the crowning glory of the human condition. Danger Road is a searing and scintillating gawk at the truth about our legal system and ourselves. --Howard Finkelstein, trial lawyer

John P. Contini has written a fascinating true crime book of one of the most high profile murder cases in Broward County history. In addition, he has managed to superbly display the psychology behind the tense moments in the courtroom with his frank disclosure of his own insightful self-talk during that time. It is as honest as it gets and I was not able to put the book down.. and I already knew the ending! --Michael Brannon, forensic psychologist

John s work goes beyond just being another true crime book: It is a riveting morality treatise affording extraordinary insight into a homicide's rippling effects not only on the immediate participants but also on all who are touched by the ongoing waves of its horror - yet revealing hope that a measure of good can spring out of even the machinations of evil. --Brian Cavanagh, Chief of Homicide, Broward State Attorney's Office 

Product Description
Danger Road: A true crime story of murder and redemption, recounts Contini s defense of Gil Fernandez, Jr., a former Miami-Dade cop and Mr. Florida body building champion, kick boxer and black belt karate instructor. The former cop was charged with an execution-style triple murder in 1990, and was also alleged to have been a soldier for the mob in South Florida. As many as eight (8) other members of his own crew of alleged extortionists and body builders were murdered two at a time with no forensic clues, fueling law enforcement s theory that the murders had the signature of a policeman, and that Fernandez, an ex-cop, was systematically eliminating witnesses against him. A year before his indictment and arrest, Fernandez had become a professed born-again Christian, a redemption that soon figures prominently in Contini s life. 

Contini gives readers a unique insider perspective on the mindsets of both a defense attorney in a capital murder case and a defendant who had become a completely different person by the time of his trial. Danger Road also reveals details about the influence of the media on the trial, and the biased judge and prosecutors who were hell-bent to send Fernandez to the chair. By ripping the lid off the behind-the-scenes machinations of our legal system, one of the author's goals was to cause readers to take another look at the way justice is dispensed in our society. 

About the Author
John P. Contini became a Broward County prosecutor in 1983 and has been a criminal defense attorney since 1987. He received his B.A. in 1979 from the University of Massachusetts and his Juris Doctor in 1982 from the New England School of Law. Among other professional associations, he is a member of the Florida and Massachusetts Bar Associations, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. 

John has earned a reputation as an attorney who will defend the indefensible. According to him, "The criminally accused are treated like modern-day lepers. Those who are shunned and ostracized by society need our help and mercy the most. After all, we must demonstrate forgiveness if we want to be forgiven ourselves." 

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