Paperback: Roger Karp, a handsome District Attorney with an insatiable lust for justice, won't rest until he gets no lesser plea than "guilty of murder" out of a vicious assassin.
Mandeville Louis killed two people in cold blood, then cleverly threw a phony crazy fit in court and walked away from his trial.
Now, lying in wait in a psychiatric ward until the heat is off, Louis may slip through the system again.
But Karp refuses to let go of this sociopath who laughs at the law while he kills again and again.
For even in the relative security of a mental hospital, Louis's homicide spree is not over as Karp's beautiful colleague, Marlene Ciampi, becomes an unwitting pawn in the two men's deadly battle of minds and murder.
No Lesser Plea (1987) is the powerful debut in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series set in New York.
About the author: Robert K Tanenbaum is an American trial attorney, novelist, and former mayor of Beverly Hills. He is the author of 28 books, 25 novels and 3 nonfiction works. The Piano Teacher (1987) is the story of a psychotic killer. Badge of the Assassin (1979) recalls the true account of Tanenbaum's investigation and trial of self-proclaimed members of the Black Liberation Army who assassinated two NYPD police officers, Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini. It was later adapted into a movie titled Badge of the Assassin (1985), starring James Woods as Tanenbaum.
Tanenbaum's signature work, Echoes of My Soul (2013), was published in May 2013 by Kensington Books and was named 'Pick of the Week' by Publisher's Weekly in its April 22, 2013 edition. It is the true story of one of the most intense manhunts in police history—and of the young District Attorney who exonerated the unjustly accused, brought the killer/ rapist to justice and forever reformed law enforcement practices, paving the way for the Miranda Decision.
Tanenbaum also served as Deputy Chief Counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination.
His latest Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi novel, Tragic - a murder mystery that focuses on the murderous effects of weak character and unbridled ambition intertwined with shocking tempestuous deception - was published by Simon and Schuster Gallery Books in 2013. (Wikipedia)
His next Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi novel, Fatal Conceit, will be published on 20 August 2014.
Rating: 5/5
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