Complex Issues
Singer's legal thrillers are never about simple cases. He takes a complex medico-legal-ethical issue and looks at it from all sides.
In this case, he looks at invitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, illegal immigrant smuggling, cloning, right to life issues and Down syndrome.
He takes Mitch Taylor, the lawyer introduced in Directed Verdict, and has him begin to fall in love with the beautiful Cambodian surrogate mother. I had already imagined Mitch as tall, dark and handsome, so when they said he was blond, I chose to ignore it.
The book caused me to gasp at one point, but it was a good surprise.