Danny Renko is a federal prosecutor of white collar criminals in Boston. When a colleague who is his best friend dies under suspicious circumstances, Danny is drawn into a world far outside his experience as he searches for the truth. Soon, Danny is running for his life when his search rubs the wrong people the wrong way and he fears they have someone on the inside.His pursuers have guns, numbers and experience. Danny has only his improvisational resourcefulness, a few friends, and the need to see justice done. But will that be enough?A tense thriller with unforgettable characters, Death of a Prosecutor carries the reader from an insider's view of the prosecutor's office through the neighborhoods of Boston to explore what happens when a quiet man has to find the courage -- and the humor -- to do what has to be done.Death of a Prosecutor is the first novel of Evan Slavitt, himself a former Assistant United States Attorney and follows in the tradition of John Grisham, Scott Turow, Robert Parker and Martin Cruz Smith.