pThe Law is a Jealous Mistress and requires long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors but by lavish homage. - Supreme Court Justice Joseph Storypp ppOver many years, Eddie Terrell and his firm have grown in prominence and with success after success. There have been failures too but few and far between. He has become not just a 'good lawyer' he has become a craftsman, an artist. He has had much help along the way. His powers of creation and elucidation remain stout and strong and he is a fearsome opponent.pp ppAnd now here, in the final volume of the Eddie Terrell Trilogy, Eddie realizes that no great races last forever and that he is running out of runway. His mind and abilities and evaluating skills are still razor sharp but he knows the clock is ticking and he is troubled by a horizon of conclusion that begins to loom ever closer before him. Immortality is never to be purchased and he knows it.ppbrppHe presses on with more vigor than ever. He will run throug