A Cure For Night by Justin Peacock – Review

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A Cure for Night: A Novel by Justin Peacock

At the start of Justin Peacock’s terrific first novel, “A Cure for Night” (to be published tomorrow), Joel Deveraux, a lawyer with a top-drawer Manhattan firm, unwisely hooks up with a co-worker, a sexy paralegal named Beth. She proves to be a junkie, and soon he’s snorting heroin with her on weekends. Even worse, one day she ODs in the firm’s ladies’ room. In the aftermath of this disaster, Joel is ousted by the law firm and becomes a public defender in Brooklyn because no one else will hire him. That’s when his education begins.

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