"Billy Strobe" by John Martel PF

Billy Strobe is a student attending law school who gets caught in money making scheme that results in him being sentenced to prison. While in prison he completes his law degree and develops a commitment to a fellow prisoner who basically saves his life. With an early release from prison he is determined to get a new trial for the man who saved his life. In his pursuit of that goal he discloses a complex stock manipulation within the legal firm with whom he is employed that ultimately results in additional murders and a threat to his own life. It is moderately entertaining as suspense novel in the tradition established by John Grisham.