The Quality of Mercy: The Eddie Stillson Story

487 pp. A novel set partly in Rochester, New York, taking its title from a soliloquy by Portia in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. "Dear Reader, before we unfold this story to you, it may set the tone and prove used if we first dwell on the words of William Shakespeare in his classic work, The Merchant of Venice... let us read a story about noble deeds of mercy in the face of man's inhumanity to man, of hope lost and hope found, and in the end the victorious tempering of the reality of justice by the loftiest of all the virtues, love and charity."