5 Things You Should Know About Tropical Doubts by David Myles Robinson @DMRobinsonWrite #5Things

David Myles Robinson was a trial attorney in Honolulu, HI for 38 years before retiring to the mountains of New Mexico, where he lives with his wife, a former Honolulu trial judge. In the days of yore, before becoming a lawyer, he was a freelance journalist and a staff reporter for a minority newspaper in Pasadena, CA. He is an award-winning author of six novels, three of which are Pancho McMartin legal thrillers set in Honolulu.

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.
He says he includes his middle name, Myles, in his authorial appellation because there are far too many other David Robinson’s running around.

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5 Things You Should Know About Tropical Doubts

1. It is the third in a series of legal thrillers starring top Honolulu criminal defense attorney, Pancho McMartin. The two prior books are Tropical Lies and Tropical Judgments.

2. The plot combines a medical malpractice case, which, although outside of his area of specialty, Pancho is cajoled into taking on behalf of a family friend, and a murder case, when that same friend is arrested for the murder of one of the doctors who caused the client’s wife to come out of the surgery in a permanent vegetative state.

3. The medical malpractice case is based in substantial part on a real case I handled when I was practicing as a trial attorney in Honolulu.

4. Pancho McMartin was born in Taos, New Mexico to parents who had dropped out of college in the late 1960s and moved to Taos to join a commune. His parents claimed they named him Pancho so that when he began school in the mostly Hispanic community he would get along better with his peers. Pancho’s theory is that his parents dropped acid to celebrate his birth and named him while stoned.

5. Pancho’s private investigator and best friend, Drew Tulafono, is a large Samoan man who grew up in Oceanside, California and played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers. When Pancho and Drew aren’t working to get their clients acquitted, they love to grab their surfboards and hit the waves.

Title: TROPICAL DOUBTS
Author: David Myles Robinson
Publisher: Terra Nova Books
Pages: 282
Genre: Legal Thriller

BOOK BLURB:

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.