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Dear Reader...

Tropical Doubts is  the third book of my legal thriller series starring Honolulu criminal defense attorney, Pancho McMartin and his trusty private investigator and best friend, Drew Tulafono, a former NFL lineman. Pancho is a haole, which in Hawaii means Caucasian. So you may be wondering how he came to be named Pancho. In the late 1960s, Pancho’s parents dropped out of college to become hippies on a commune in Taos, New Mexico. They claim they named him Pancho so that he would fit in better when he began school in the mostly Hispanic community. Pancho’s theory is that they dropped acid to celebrate his birth and named him while stoned.

In any event, Pancho went on to become Hawaii’s top criminal defense attorney. In Tropical Doubts, he is cajoled into taking on a medical malpractice case for an old family friend whose wife fell into a permanent vegetative state following what should have been a routine surgery. Medical malpractice was not Pancho’s area of expertise, but when he learned that Padma Dasari, the chief medical examiner for the city and county of Honolulu had just retired, he hired her as his expert consultant (the fact that he fell in love with her was a bonus). When the client is arrested for the murder of one of the doctors he is suing, Pancho finds himself in the stressful situation of handling both a complicated medical malpractice case and a murder case.

One thing I like to do in my legal thrillers is to convey to the readers a sense of what the realities are for trial attorneys. Medical malpractice cases, for example, are extremely difficult to win. After all, the jurors tend to put doctors on pedestals. They are healers. They are the good guys. An attorney who handles a med mal case must do so on a contingency fee basis, which means he or she does not get paid unless he or she wins the case. As if that isn’t stressful enough, the attorney generally has to advance the costs of litigation, which can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars when there are many expert witnesses involved.

The medical malpractice case in Tropical Doubts was inspired by an actual case I had when I was a trial attorney in Honolulu. It was a tragic case, and many of the facts of Pancho’s case are taken directly from my real-life case. Luckily there was no murder involved.

I hope you enjoy Tropical Doubts. Although it is the third in the series, and I have another, Tropical Deception, coming out this winter, each book is a stand-alone story. Please check out my other books at my website, davidmylesrobinson.com.

Aloha,

David Robinson

About the Book

When Honolulu’s flamboyant and quirky attorney, Pancho McMartin, agrees to step out of his normal role as a criminal defense lawyer, he thinks it will be a challenging but welcome change from his daily dose of criminal clients. His old friend and father-figure, Manny Delacruz, has beseeched Pancho to handle a medical malpractice claim against the physicians who botched what should have been a routine surgery, but which resulted in Manny’s beloved wife being in a permanent vegetative state. The case looks good, the damages enormous, but when Manny is arrested for the murder of one of the doctors, Pancho finds himself back in his old role. If Manny is convicted, it means he won’t be able to be at his wife’s bedside to hold her hand, caress her face, and read his poems to her. He will have lost his reason to live. The pressure on Pancho is enormous. While he and his team try to make sense out of one of the most sinister and complicated murder schemes he’s ever seen, the medical malpractice case chugs forward, in jeopardy of being worthless should Manny be convicted.

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About the Author 

David Myles Robinson was a trial attorney in Honolulu, HI for 38 years before retiring to the mountains of New Mexico, where he lives with his wife, a former Honolulu trial judge. In the days of yore, before becoming a lawyer, he was a freelance journalist and a staff reporter for a minority newspaper in Pasadena, CA. He is an award-winning author of six novels, three of which are Pancho McMartin legal thrillers set in Honolulu.

Having traveled to all seven continents, he has also published a travel memoir entitled CONGA LINE ON THE AMAZON, which includes two Solas Traveler’s Tales award winners.
He says he includes his middle name, Myles, in his authorial appellation because there are far too many other David Robinson’s running around.

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