Moot Point

In a federal courtroom where habeas petitions are routinely stamped dead, retired con artist Elias Voss spots the perfect mark: a brilliant defense attorney who has spent decades fabricating evidence to free monsters. Voss orchestrates a counterfeit release scheme—a prison transfer that never happens, a freedom that exists only on paper—to trap the attorney in his own game. But when the mark outplays every move, Voss realizes the attorney doesn't want money or power. He wants only to watch hope rise and crash, for no reason at all. A cold-blooded tale of professional deception where the ultimate evil is the one that needs no motive.