The Big Law (1998)
by Chuck Logan
The Big Law's intricate mechanics are set in motion by one fatal choice:
Broker's naive ex-wife Caren decides to blow the whistle on her
feckless husband, Keith Angland, a St. Paul cop who's moonlighting as an
informant for the Chicago mob. Unwisely for her, she confides in Tom
James, a disaffected reporter nursing dreams of the perfect crime.
Seeing a way out of his dead-end life and into his dreams, Tom cajoles
Caren into entrusting him with the suitcase full of greenbacks the mob
had paid her informant husband. When Caren is killed, Tom frames
Angland, absconds with the suitcase, runs to the FBI (known to its
employees as the Big Law), and wangles himself a berth in the Witness
Protection Program. Only Broker senses something amiss in Tom's
testimony, and he sets out to find the truth. But to do that, he must
find Tom, who has the Big Law and a big suitcase full of cash on his
side.
Broker's naive ex-wife Caren decides to blow the whistle on her
feckless husband, Keith Angland, a St. Paul cop who's moonlighting as an
informant for the Chicago mob. Unwisely for her, she confides in Tom
James, a disaffected reporter nursing dreams of the perfect crime.
Seeing a way out of his dead-end life and into his dreams, Tom cajoles
Caren into entrusting him with the suitcase full of greenbacks the mob
had paid her informant husband. When Caren is killed, Tom frames
Angland, absconds with the suitcase, runs to the FBI (known to its
employees as the Big Law), and wangles himself a berth in the Witness
Protection Program. Only Broker senses something amiss in Tom's
testimony, and he sets out to find the truth. But to do that, he must
find Tom, who has the Big Law and a big suitcase full of cash on his
side.