After a long career as a business book writer (55 of them) I came out of retirement to write my first novel, Six Hours Past Thursday. It covers “legal” crime. After years of searching, and to this day, I’ve found nothing in all the legal thriller archives–anywhere–covering “legal” crime.
Over the past 2 years of sales efforts I have made inroads in only one area, a niche market, lawyers, law libraries, and law profs. One law prof said, she was interested because it covered the law from the “street side” of the fence. A law librarian told me, in essence, the same thing, and added that it was the first work of fiction they had ever taken into their collection.

If you could put me on to such a book, I’d much appreciate it. I am most anxious to see what anybody else would write on this subject, in addition to me. (I feel very much alone in the world. This sphere seems to be vacant.)

–Jack Payne