Harmful Intent Book

Peter Moss had sworn off malpractice suits after losing a case against Dr. Wallace Bondurant over a young patient's death. Then Terry Winter told her story of breast cancer neglected three years - by Wallace Bondurant. Moss had been burning out, not from too much work but from work with too little meaning. Terry Winter was his most difficult client: headstrong and undependable, a rebel cowgirl with a sociopath husband stalking her and her daughter - and Moss. The closer Moss got to the answer the more elusive it became, and the more ruthless his adversaries in the medical and insurance establishments. His skeptical partners began to abandon him. Then, it seemed, his client did, too. Harmful Intent is an absorbing examination of breast cancer in the warring worlds of medicine and law, and of a mother's transcendent courage.

A woman dying of cancer sues a doctor for malpractice because in three years of examination for a breast lump he never suggested she have a biopsy. The hero is a lawyer who agrees to take the case despite losing against the same doctor in an earlier malpractice suit.