Walter walker author biography

Book List in Order: 6 titles

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• A Dime to Dance By
  

  Chuckie Bishop, an unambitious young lawyer basking in his long-past glory as a high-school football hero, thinks he knows everything about his blue-collar home-town outside Boston. But when he's forced to defend a cop who has killed an unarmed burg...

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• The Two Dude Defense
  

  Presents private detective Hector Gronig's investigation of the double murder of Reverend Jonathan Franklin, spiritual leader of San Francisco's Revelation Temple, and Ferrell Dumont, an ex-con with a large gambling debt...

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• Rules of the Knife Fight
  

  Traces the consequences of a strange murder that brings together a tough kid from New England, a young lawyer who risks everything to defend a friend he knows is guilty, and a cynical judge who is a virtual stranger in his own home...

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• Immediate Prospect of Being Hanged
  

  The murder of Rebecca Chesley Carpenter, a member of one of the leadin

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  Walter Walker author biography, plus links to books by Walter Walker.

  Walter Walker

  Walter Walker is a trial lawyer in San Francisco, who has homes in Marin County, California, and on Cape Cod. He is the author of six novels, including Crime of Privilege (Ballantine, 2013), The Appearance Of Impropriety (Pocket, 1993), The Immediate Prospect of Being Hanged (Viking, 1989), Rules of the Knife Fight (Harper & Row, 1986), The Two Dude Defense (Harper & Row, 1985), and A Dime to Dance By (Harper & Row, 1983), which was named Best First Novel by a California Author. He is a graduate of the Northfield Mount Hermon School, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He has been a finalist for California Trial Attorney of the Year (2003) and San Francisco Trial Attorney of the Year (2011).

  This biography was last updated on 06/18/2013.

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  Walter Walker (British Army officer)

  British military officer

  GeneralSir Walter Colyear Walker, KCB, CBE, DSO** (11 November 1912 – 12 August 2001) was a senior British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1969 until his retirement in 1972. He commanded the 4/8th Gurkhas Rifles against the Japanese Army in Burma during the Second World War. He commanded the 1/6 Gurkha Rifles from 1950 to 1953 and he commanded the 99th Gurkha Infantry Brigade Group from 1957 to 1959 during the Malayan Emergency. Walker was Director of Operations in Borneo from 1962 to 1965 during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation. In retirement, he attracted some controversy by publicising his views on the political situation in Britain during the mid-1970s.

  Early life

  Walker was born on an Indian tea plantation in Cuttack on 11 November 1912, one of four sons born to a military family.^[1] At the end of the First World War Walker and his family moved back to Britain and he was sent to Blundell's School in Devon.^[2]