Richard Dooling was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his B.A. from St. Louis University in 1976 and, in 1979, began working as a respiratory therapist in intensive care units. After traveling for over a year in Europe and Africa, he went back to law school at St. Louis University, where he was editor in chief of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. He practiced law at Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis for four years.
Not since The House of God has there been a book that affords such an unsparing and yet antic vision of the hidden world of a hospital house staff, their inhuman burdens, and the deadly humor that is their defense against despair.
Joe Watson is an associate in a prestigious St. Louis law firm when a notorious district court judge assigns him a politically explosive pro bono case--he must defend a bigoted white man accused of killing a deaf black man. Watson's decision to represent his irreputable client in court, rather than wriggle out of the case, outrages his partners and imperils his marriage.
Set in Omaha, Nebraska, the author’s hometown, Bet Your Life turns the death of Lenny Stillmach–a young insurance investigator, a scam buster who may have been a scam artist himself–into a sexy, techno-literary exploration of fraud, murder, and the mysteries of the human soul.
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