Robert K. Tanenbaum Bücher

Strafverteidiger Butch Karp vertritt den Pathologen Murray Selig in einer Verleumdungsklage, nachdem dieser vom Bürgermeister entlassen wurde. Der Fall ist kompliziert durch die Machenschaften der Polizei, die auch die Journalistin Ariadne Stupenagel betreffen.

"Was sagten Sie gerade?" fragte Karp. "Ich sagte, daß irgendwo zwischen Parkland- und Bethesda-Krankenhaus jemand an der Leiche herumgefuhrwerkt hat. Sie haben das Gehirn herausgeschnitten und den Schädel so hergerichtet, um die Theorie des einzelnen Schusses von hinten plausibel zu machen." CIA, Castro-Gegner, Mafia, KGB oder ein Mann namens L.H. Oswald: Wer hat John F. Kennedy ermordet? Dreizehn Jahre nach dem Attentat soll der New Yorker Strafverfolger Butch Karp diese Frage endgültig beantworten. Doch die Verschwörer wissen das zu verhindern: Beweismaterial verschwindet, Zeugen werden ermordet, und dann ist da noch der Mann, der Lee Harvey Oswald verblüffend ähnlich sieht.

This "New York Times" bestseller brings back New York ADA Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi. While prosecuting the case of a murdered coal mine union leader in West Virginia, Karp masterminds a scheme to trap the killers.

The shooting death of a rap mogul is the first link in a sinister chain ensnaring New York District Attorney Butch Karp. With his wife and daughter on a New Mexico retreat, Karp is left to fend for his teenaged sons and himself. Descending into the hip-hop underworld to prosecute a killer, Karp comes head-to-head wih Andrew Kane, a powerful would-be mayor whose corrupt web of influence leads Karp to unveil a shocking church sex-abuse scandal. In a world where secrets can be buried for an often-deadly price, Karp discovers there is no safe haven.

When a rising starlet dies from a gunshot wound in the fashionable downtown penthouse of an eccentric Broadway producer, New York District Attorney Roger “Butch” Karp and his hard-charging wife, Marlene Ciampi, smell drama. With the help of a fearful witness, Karp wages a relentless battle for justice against a notorious defendant, a legion of experts, and a barrage of hostile threats. Meanwhile, a shadowy international power group kidnaps Karp’s daughter, Lucy. As Karp races to decode a baffling series of riddles, a beautiful but deadly Russian assassin hunts him. He must infiltrate the kidnappers before their scheme for world dominion succeeds. Little does he know, the clock is ticking down on New York City as an invisible force prepares to unleash Armageddon.

District Attorney Butch Karp and his pistol-packing wife Marlene Ciampi, the liveliest crime-fighting couple in New York, are back in True Justice. The first set of infanticides happen on Butch's a wave of gruesome incidents in which newborns are killed or abandoned by their indigent teenage mothers. The second, Marlene's case, is straight out of the a middle-class college girl and her boyfriend are indicted for first-degree murder in the death of their baby after a concealed pregnancy. The most interesting story belongs to Lucy, Butch and Marlene's teenage daughter, an incisively brilliant and complex young woman who deserves her own novel. Lucy's best friend's parents seem to have been murdered by an African furniture restorer of whose guilt Lucy is unconvinced. The real solution to the mystery of who killed the Maxwells is telegraphed well in advance, but all the crimes give Butch, Marlene, their colleagues in criminal justice, and even Lucy a chance to weigh in on the law's fault lines and the ironies implicit in what passes for justice in America. But it's Lucy's spiritual quest that provokes the book's most unusual and involving drama. Lucy's devout Catholic faith, like her prodigious talent for language (she can speak 14, but give her five days in a foreign country and that'll be 15, thank you), is a mystery to Butch, a lapsed Jew, and Marlene, who has trouble squaring her own faith with the violence that attends her job. When a Jesuit priest tries to explain it in the following passage, Butch is "Lucy takes her spiritual responsibilities very seriously. And of course, in the current age, when people think there's no such thing as spiritual responsibility, she has nothing to compare herself to, and so she may get herself painted into a corner." "I'm not sure I follow," said Karp."Oh, I mean, two or three hundred years ago, a girl with her talents and predilections would have been in an order, with hourly guidance and a rule to follow. Think of Mickey Mantle being born in, say, Romania in 1830. The talent's there, but there's no cultural space for it." This is a keenly intelligent book, many cuts above the usual courtroom procedural. The most interesting things happen outside the courtroom--the moral dilemmas, the political choices, the bonds between parents and daughter. The pacing is as swift as the dialogue, the characters are piercingly illuminated, and the philosophical jousting is worth a room full of Jesuits. This reader is heading straight for Tanenbaum's backlist and eagerly anticipating another novel with Lucy as the star. --Jane Adams

The narrative centers on Richard A. Sprague, a celebrated jury trial expert and prosecutor, as he leads a groundbreaking manhunt investigation in police history. This true story showcases his relentless pursuit of justice, highlighting the challenges and triumphs faced throughout the intense legal battle. The book captures the determination and resilience required to navigate the complexities of the judicial system, ultimately offering an inspiring tale of justice served.