Black water rising (2009)

Saving a woman from Houston's Buffalo Bayou draws lawyer Jay Porter into a case that reaches through the city's political and business networks. The 1981 setting connects waterside industry and opportunity to the unequal power of the people around him. Locke makes access to information depend on where Porter stands within those relationships. Pick it for an urban legal thriller in which personal caution, civic ambition and the working city put pressure on the inquiry together.