False Witness

Description for FALSE WITNESS by Dorothy Uhnak: At the center of FALSE WITNESS are two very different women, each ambitious, tough, successful in her own way. One is the victim, a beautiful, sexy female television news star and celebrity, raped and savagely mutilated in her own apartment. When she awakens from her coma, she accuses a man so unlikely to have committed the crime that the case becomes an immediate, headline-making sensation. The other is the Bureau Chief of the D.A.'s office, a brilliant, abrasive young woman who wants to be District Attorney so badly she can almost taste it, and who knows it is within her grasp---if she can get a conviction for the crime... With her marvelous abilities as a storyteller, Dorothy Uhnak brings to life with breathless excitement the world she knows best---the cops, the lawyers, the D.A.s, the professionals of human tragedy. Her book makes us feel the stubborn will to win and the heartache of a woman who watches her own passi