From Mission Point Press
“Been there. Done that.” From Todd Merer, a lawyer with a four-decade career in criminal defense law with a clientele including such prominent figures as leaders of the Cali Cartel, the Pablo Escobar family, and Colombian associates of El Chapo, that’s what you’d generously call an understatement.
Now, with The “Good Doctora: An Organized Crime Legal Thriller from Mission Point Press, (March 25, 2025), he’s doing it again.
Merer launched his literary career with “The Extraditionist,” a widely-acclaimed novel that achieved best-selling status, followed by “The White Tigress, “a sequel inspired by his advocacy for Asian defendants embroiled in the “China White” heroin trade.
Yet his third title isn’t fully “done that,” for “The Good Doctora” has a decidedly different angle.
“I decided I no longer wanted to write my own character via my protagonist but instead, try to create and understand another totally different person, a woman. But everything I write is drawn from my experiences and The Good Doctora is no exception,” Merer said.
His carefully created character, Electra, is a fearless lawyer who thrives on representing extradited drug lords while navigating the Colombian expat community in Queens and perilous Andean cartel strongholds. At the crossroads of crime and conscience, she discovers more than she bargained for and readers are met with a narrative that explores the dark alleys of the legal world and the inner sanctum of Electra’s true self.
Merer is now 1,500 miles away from his days of drug wars and courtroom battles, happily ensconced in a two-hundred-year-old house overlooking San Juan Bay, in Puerto Rico.
Reflecting on his journey, Merer shared, “Writing was always on my mind. When I was sixteen, I composed an essay, “What It Means to Be an American,” for a class assignment and without my knowledge, my teacher submitted it to a nationwide contest and it won first prize. But I wanted to be a lawyer and didn’t write fiction again until I decided my occupation was no longer satisfying. The most surprising thing I discovered was that the life of a writer is great fun!”
For more information, visit www.toddmererauthor.com.
“Been there. Done that.” From Todd Merer, a lawyer with a four-decade career in criminal defense law with a clientele including such prominent figures as leaders of the Cali Cartel, the Pablo Escobar family, and Colombian associates of El Chapo, that’s what you’d generously call an understatement.
Now, with The “Good Doctora: An Organized Crime Legal Thriller from Mission Point Press, (March 25, 2025), he’s doing it again.
Merer launched his literary career with “The Extraditionist,” a widely-acclaimed novel that achieved best-selling status, followed by “The White Tigress, “a sequel inspired by his advocacy for Asian defendants embroiled in the “China White” heroin trade.
Yet his third title isn’t fully “done that,” for “The Good Doctora” has a decidedly different angle.
“I decided I no longer wanted to write my own character via my protagonist but instead, try to create and understand another totally different person, a woman. But everything I write is drawn from my experiences and The Good Doctora is no exception,” Merer said.
His carefully created character, Electra, is a fearless lawyer who thrives on representing extradited drug lords while navigating the Colombian expat community in Queens and perilous Andean cartel strongholds. At the crossroads of crime and conscience, she discovers more than she bargained for and readers are met with a narrative that explores the dark alleys of the legal world and the inner sanctum of Electra’s true self.
Merer is now 1,500 miles away from his days of drug wars and courtroom battles, happily ensconced in a two-hundred-year-old house overlooking San Juan Bay, in Puerto Rico.
Reflecting on his journey, Merer shared, “Writing was always on my mind. When I was sixteen, I composed an essay, “What It Means to Be an American,” for a class assignment and without my knowledge, my teacher submitted it to a nationwide contest and it won first prize. But I wanted to be a lawyer and didn’t write fiction again until I decided my occupation was no longer satisfying. The most surprising thing I discovered was that the life of a writer is great fun!”
For more information, visit www.toddmererauthor.com.
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