Desperate Measures by Kate Wilhelm - Wilhelm's sixth Barbara Holloway legal thriller. Holloway's latest client is a brilliant young man named Alex Feldman, who has been left hideously deformed by a birth defect. He is accused of killing his next-door neighbor, Gus Marchand, a tyrannical religious zealot who saw Alex's deformity as the mark of the devil. Did he do it? Holloway goes all out to prove he did not, even going up against her father.