No One Dreamed Lee Mitchell would ever be a London barrister. Black, working-class, a woman, she has little on her side except determination and intelligence. But she's been practicing law for seven years, building up a reputation. All she needs now is a big, prestigious case. Lee is finally offered a high-profile City trial, defending fast-living financier Clive Omartian who has been arrested for fraud. It's a case any self-respecting barrister would kill for, including her own under-performing Head of Chambers, Giles Townsend, and George Amery, the most vicious defense lawyer at the bar. Lee however is more than a little wary: what's slick, confident Omartian doing with a low-rent, if talented, solicitor like Brendan Donnelly for a start? Her first trial conference confirms her every suspicion: her co-defenders have clearly already formed an alliance against her client.