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When a black man is shot multiple times in the back on the streets of New York by an NYPD golden boy, chaos erupts throughout the city. And in an election year, no one feels the pressure more than the men and women who vow to protect and to serve. For Butch Karp -- Chief Assistant District Attorney for New York County -- bullet holes aren't the only holes in this volatile case. Add a serial killer who is murdering the homeless to Karp's daily grind, and it's clear he is surrounded by show more high-profile time bombs that are promising to blow the city to its core. On the home front, the company Karp's wife -- Marlene -- works for has gone public. Marlene starts drinking to weather the storm. To make matters worse, his daughter -- Lucy -- is skipping school to feed the homeless not far from where the slasher stalks his prey. Desperate to stop the violence before it touches his family, Karp must wade through a system of corruption and conspiracy that threatens to silence his pursuit of the truth...forever. show lessTags
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Man, here's a lawyer who hates police. Makes me wonder about his real life court cases. The story was a little far fetched for me - a teenager permitted to wander New York amid the worst parts of the city; her mother who is an alcoholic and spend thrift but who can stop both by herself; the father/dad who is so tied up fighting dragons that he can ignore the chaotic family events for the good of the DA's office? Here's another case of requiring a 6th star for 'it's just okay'.
I've not read any previous books in this series (or by this author as far as I remember). This book was in a box I received from a friend who asked me to pass them on to good causes once I finished reading them. This book wasn't my cup of tea. I wasn't gripped by the story from the very beginning and I didn't really care about the characters--so I struggled to read it.
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Robert K. Tanenbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is one of the country's most respected trial lawyers and has never lost a felony case. He has been the Homicide Bureau Chief for the New York show more District Attorney's Office and Deputy Chief Counsel to the congressional committee's investigations into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. He is the author of the Butch Karp-Marlene Ciampi Thriller series. His non-fiction books include Badge of the Assassin, The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer, and Echoes of My Soul. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Butch Karp; Marlene Ciampi; Lucy Karp
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
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- Members
- 315
- Popularity
- 101,271
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.85)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 21
- ASINs
- 4
