Robert Shapiro, a famous local trial attorney and associate in the Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro law firm, is the writer of The Search for Justice. Best recognized as an affiliate of O.J. Simpson’s Dream Team, the prominent lawyer collaborated with Walt W. Becker for the legal thriller Misconception. It has been getting reviews that the book is of general likeness to O.J. Simpson’s trial, wherein a national character is on trial in a televised courtroom.

The fictional book’s plot focuses on a “southern white male, courtly, handsome, and pro-choice” named Dr. Daniel Wyatt who was just selected for a position as the United States surgeon general. To everyone, and particularly to his colleague from a Women’s Advocacy Group in Lafayette, La. named Claire Davis, he fits the role perfectly. When he finally comes up to the stage to receive the nomination, Sarah Corbett, a woman with whom he has had interests, pages him. She tells him she is pregnant. Not wanting to ruin Wyatt’s reputation or family, she is unwilling to get an abortion. At this point, the authors provided a very good portrayal of each and every instance of Wyatt’s guilt. Davis then secures abortion pills to give to Corbett. The latter’s miscarriage reveals the affair between her and Wyatt, and he is left accused of giving her the drug, thus killing the unborn baby. Meanwhile, in the book’s subplot, an anti-abortion activist by the name of Peter O’Keefe, who has an infamous reputation of killing plots against numerous ob-gyns in Canada, plans to bomb the courthouse should he be found innocent.

Indeed, Shapiro and Becker’s Misconception proves to be a powerhouse, with a unique bevy of characters that are easily tattooed onto the reader’s thoughts.