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But it might be an advantage if you, like Ellis, are a practicing lawyer (he was the house prosecutor during Rod Blagojevich’s impeachment trial) and are running for appellate court judge next spring.
“Being a lawyer means that elected officials don’t piss you off,” he jokes.
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In this case, Jason, the logical investigator, almost deliberately fails to add up a large number of factors—a knee injury plus bad dreams and a dry mouth and itchy hands plus an uncharacteristically foggy brain and lack of interest in work plus a strange devotion to a tin of Altoids (to the point that he leaves the bed of a beautiful woman in the middle of the night and takes a cab across the city to get back home)—and conclude that he’s become addicted to OxyContin, which his doctor had prescribed during his knee surgery.
Ellis tries to stay as faithful to regular legal proceedings as possible. He sometimes takes dramatic license by editing out the boring procedural parts, but he says that many lawyers have read his courtroom scenes and most have liked them a lot.
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