Read the first chapter of Orange Prize-shortlisted Black Water Rising
Enjoy Chapter One of Orange Prize for Fiction-shortlisted thriller Black Water Rising by Attica Locke – big oil and its twin, corporate corruption, meet their match with attorney Jay Porter.
Porter is a struggling personal injury attorney down on his luck, who suddenly finds himself in a situation spiraling out of control. Jay knows a boat ride on the Bayou won’t measure up to his wife’s expectations of a birthday celebration, but it’s all he can afford. Once a man of virtuous ideals, he is now just waiting for a break. All that changes when midway through dinner, gun shots and sharp cries for help ring out. When he fishes a woman out of the Bayou, his sixth sense tells him this charitable act will lead to no good. Unraveling the woman’s past, Jay finds himself enmeshed in a web that weaves together greed, politics, and corporate corruption. And the secrets of his own past come back to either haunt or save him.
