After the high visibility case where he represented the Tulsa mayor, criminal lawyer Ben Kincaid has quit the bar to practice his first love, playing music with a combo at Uncle EarlĘs Jazz Emporium. However, BenĘs serene lifestyle is abruptly destroyed when the corpse of legendary singer Lily Campbell comes crashing down on him from the ceiling lights. All the circumstantial evidence points towards Earl as being the killer, especially since the body of Lily has been carved with a smile that parallels a murder Earl confessed he once did which ultimately led to him serving over twenty years in the pen.

When BenĘs enemy, police officer Prescott breaks EarlĘs constitutional rights, the former lawyer cannot sit back and watch his musical mentor be railroaded as he apparently was in the first case. He becomes EarlĘs lawyer and begins to dig into two murder mysteries, connected even though they are over two decades apart. However, Ben does not yet realize that he has placed himself and his legal team in extreme danger from an assailant who has a twisted interpretation of justice.

EXTREME JUSTICE is an extremely exciting, fun to read legal thriller with a twist that adds pleasure to an already great reading experience. Ben is a top rate character whose problems and doubts make him seem very human. His legal dream team is Olympic gold medal winners, taking first prize as a continual support cast. William Bernhardt is a rarity within a sub-genre flooded with former attorneys: he is a lawyer who can actually write a spellbinding novel. Fans of legal thrillers who give his novels (see PRIMARY JUSTICE and PERFECT JUSTICE) a chance will return for more books by him because he is so good.