courtroom for the first time in his 61 years of life and listened to a prosecutor named Dennis Ashworth, a compact, precise man in an expensive suit who had the particular bearing of someone who wins most of the time, lay out a case that sounded devastating and airtight and was built entirely on manufactured evidence.
And Walter stood straight and kept his hands still and thought, “Somebody worked very hard on this.
” Somebody with access and resources and patience.
Somebody who had a reason to make him specifically the
