Today
is character guest post day! We have Pancho McMartin from David Myles Robinson's TROPICAL DOUBTS. Enjoy!
Aloha
from Honolulu, dear readers. My name is Pancho McMartin and some
consider me to be Hawaii’s best criminal defense attorney (although I’m way
too humble to say so myself). Together with my private investigator and best
friend, Drew Tulafono, a former NFL lineman, we have won more than our share of
cases, often proving who the actual culprit (murderer) was. However, as you can
see from the first page of Tropical Doubts, I had just lost three jury
trials in a row and may be having a bit of a crisis of confidence, which is
certainly not the best state of mind to have as I begin this latest legal
adventure.
I
get wrangled into representing an old friend of my parents when the wife falls
into a permanent vegetative state following what should have been a routine
surgical procedure. Medical malpractice cases are not my specialty, which is
why I hired Padma Dasari, the former chief medical examiner for the city and county of Honolulu as my medical consultant but after whom I’d been
lusting for years. What can I say? Beauty, brains, and a dry, sarcastic sense
of humor turn me on.
As
if handling a difficult and expensive malpractice case weren’t stressful
enough, my client (the husband) gets arrested for the murder of one of the
doctors. So now I have a medical malpractice case and a murder case; my parents
add to the pressure by coming to Honolulu to watch the trial; and I’m spending money on expert
witnesses in the malpractice case as if I have it to spend.
Speaking of a dry sense of humor, you may be wondering how
I got my strange name. My parents dropped out of college in the late 60s and
moved to Taos, New
Mexico to join
a hippie commune. Their story is that they named me Pancho so that I’d fit in
better in the mostly Hispanic community once I was school age. My theory is
that they dropped acid to celebrate the fact that I had all my fingers and toes
and an apparent working brain despite all the drugs they had taken and, while
stoned, they named me Pancho. They since left the hippie life and moved to
Santa Fe to write self-help books full of psychobabble bullshit they learned in
their counterculture life, becoming millionaires in the process.
When I’m not representing the crème de la crème of
criminals, Drew and I hit the surf on our longboards. Surfing, for me, clears
my head and is the perfect reminder that I live in paradise.
When Honolulu’s flamboyant and quirky attorney, Pancho McMartin, agrees to step out of his normal role as a criminal defense lawyer, he thinks it will be a challenging but welcome change from his daily dose of criminal clients. His old friend and father-figure, Manny Delacruz, has beseeched Pancho to handle a medical malpractice claim against the physicians who botched what should have been a routine surgery, but which resulted in Manny’s beloved wife being in a permanent vegetative state. The case looks good, the damages enormous, but when Manny is arrested for the murder of one of the doctors, Pancho finds himself back in his old role. If Manny is convicted, it means he won’t be able to be at his wife’s bedside to hold her hand, caress her face, and read his poems to her. He will have lost his reason to live. The pressure on Pancho is enormous. While he and his team try to make sense out of one of the most sinister and complicated murder schemes he’s ever seen, the medical malpractice case chugs forward, in jeopardy of being worthless should Manny be convicted.
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Having traveled to all seven continents, he has also published a travel memoir entitled CONGA LINE ON THE AMAZON, which includes two Solas Traveler’s Tales award winners.
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