Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
120348
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
605
Points per Page
0.028099
Description
Jackson Workman "Work" Pickens, a criminal defense attorney in a class-conscious southern town, has come to hate his profession and his life, but he is shocked out of his inertia when his father's corpse is found and he becomes the prime suspect.