J.J. has often dreamed of his ultimate case: suing God. When the parents of two altar boys are mysteriously directed to his office, he relishes the idea of taking on the Catholic Church. Can he sue God, too, and claim the Church is merely His agent, he wonders?
But things are not as they appear. Unbeknownst to J.J., he has been studied and perhaps manipulated by a beautiful woman sitting in the shadows of the courtroom.
With his acerbic law student daughter looking on, J.J. chafes under the watchful eye of a stern judge as his case unravels, his psychological expert is challenged, he is confronted with evidence of False Memory Syndrome, and the boys parents turn against him. Then comes the shocking death a body dangling from the tower of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin that rocks the Sacramento community and his case.
Meanwhile, when the accused priest flees to Mexico, J.J. asks his trusted friend, Andy Miller a disbarred lawyer and sometime investigator to find him. But Andy is engaged in his own quest for justice. Enraged about the prosecution of Martha Stewart over chump change, Andy spends much of his time, when sober, driving around Houston, in a rental car with a high-powered rifle, stalking Ken Lay, who later dies allegedly of a heart attack.
The Altar Boys is a powerful legal and psychological courtroom drama that raises questions of religion and faith, played out against the backdrop of the hilarious antics of an insane investigator, the role of media in big-time litigation, a developing romance, and the unfailing love of a father for his daughter.
