Peter Wercinski’s New Novel A Malleable Truth!
Soon to Be Available!
Alcohol. Drugs. Sex. Lies. Money. Why do the central characters in Peter Wercinski’s courtroom drama A Malleable Truth pretend they don’t have those compulsions? Because the legal system rewards those who lie about their addictions? Because society wants to believe the story of the recovered addict, even when the facts show otherwise?
Luke Redding is a homeless alcoholic fired from his newspaper advertising job in Southern California and now desperately fighting his former employer in a San Francisco court without a lawyer. Judge Roger Cronin attempts to dispense justice despite political pressure from the newspaper. Judge Cronin’s wife Rachel, who had attended rehab sessions with Luke, bursts into the courtroom and demands to testify, enraging her husband and thrilling the two reporters who work for the newspaper that is the biggest rival of Luke’s former employer. A Malleable Truth moves from Palm Grove, where the country club life of Luke and his wife collapses along with their marriage, to a sexually charged Los Angeles courtroom, and to a San Francisco where the contrast between the employed and the unemployed was never so obvious and so unnoticed.
A Malleable Truth is a legal thriller and a psychological inquiry into the ways in which our compulsions mandate and justify the manipulation of truth. Bursting with fast-paced dialogue, biting humor, and courtroom drama featuring take-no-prisoner cross-examinations, A Malleable Truth seeks to peel away the masks all of us employ to reveal the truth obscured by the hypocrisy.