More Advance Praise for A Shot In The Arm!

·      Fast-moving. Plenty of twists and turns. The legal details are sharp; the drinking and drugging and low life neighborhoods are Day-Glo vivid.  I was glad to know there’s at least one more novel out there about Nate Lewis and his world. Meredith Sue Willis, author of Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel and Out of the Mountains

·      Barry Willdorf knows the lawyer's brain and feels the City's heart, producing a non-stop thrill ride through San Francisco in the early 70s as a "people's lawyer" and his waitress girlfriend try to escape a web of smack, shady rehab, covert operations and murder. Gripping. Exciting. Add "A Shot in the Arm" to the classic tales of the City by the Bay. Hilton Obenzinger, author of Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco and Busy Dying

FIRST PRE-PUB REVIEW FOR "A SHOT IN THE ARM"

This second book in Barry S. Willdorf’s seventies trilogy is set in the Bay Area where people’s lawyer Nate Lewis is torn between defending the oppressed, making a name for himself, and full-throttle self-destructive behavior. The fast-moving novel brings to life a world that is at once familiar– tourists are still all over Fisherman’s Wharf– and also markedly different– the main character complains about $2.00 movies.
    The primary narrator is Nate himself, who takes on a case he knows he shouldn’t.  He is drawn to– okay, a sucker for– black militants who appear to be taking a fall for someone else’s crime.    The legal details are sharp; the drinking and drugging and low life neighborhoods are Day-Glo vivid.  The plot has plenty of twists and turns, but the real interest is less in whodunit than in how Nate almost loses his life as well as the love of his life.  Nate is smart and reasonably brave, but in the end is saved from himself and some really bad actors by someone even smarter and braver. 
    I was glad to know he made it, and that there’s at least one more novel out there about him and his world.



Meredith Sue Willis, Author of Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel and Out of the Mountains.