Danger Road

Danger Road chronicles the incredible true story of three drug dealers who were brutally murdered in 1983 on Danger Road in the Florida Everglades. Lured into a phony drug deal, the victims found themselves at the business end of a gun wielded by a Miami-Dade police officer. But police and prosecutors say Officer Gilbert Fernandez Jr. and his crew weren't there to arrest the drug dealers. They were there to execute them and steal their eight kilos of cocaine. The story details the transformation of Fernandez, from Miami 's Meanest Cop to a loving father who lived to convert people to his newfound faith in Christianity. Danger Road is the story of Fernandez’s trial for his life, told by John P. Contini, the Fort Lauderdale criminal lawyer who represented him. By ripping the lid off the behind-the-scenes machinations of our legal system, one of the author's goals was to cause readers to take another look at the way justice is dispensed in our society.