Paperback: Butch Karp is New York City's toughest Assistant District Attorney. And he's facing his dirtiest job yet - the prosecution of a group of Croatian nationalists responsible for the terrorist killing of a New York cop.
It looks like an open-and-shut case, but why are the FBI, the Catholic Church, and even the New York City Police Department going to any lengths to protect the guilty?
Karp wants to know and he'll stop at nothing to bring the cop-killer to justice, even if it means following a twisted trail of evil that tests the bounds of crime and punishment and probes the darkest depths of human depravity.
Depraved Indifference (1989) is Tanenbaum's second novel in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series.
About the author: Robert K Tanenbaum is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five legal thrillers and has an accomplished legal career of his own. Before his first book was published, Tanenbaum had already been the Bureau Chief of the Criminal Courts, had run the Homicide Bureau, and had been in charge of the training program for the legal staff for the New York County District Attorney’s Office. He also served as Deputy Chief Counsel to the Congressional Committee investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. The blockbuster novel Corruption of Blood (1994), is a fictionalized account of his experience in Washington, D.C.In his professional career, Tanenbaum has never lost a felony case.
His courtroom experiences bring his books to life, especially in his bestselling series featuring prosecutor Roger “Butch” Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi.
Tanenbaum was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the University of California at Berkeley on a basketball scholarship, and remained at Cal, where he earned his law degree from the prestigious Boalt Hall School of Law. After graduating from Berkeley Law, Tanenbaum moved back to New York to work as an assistant district attorney under the legendary New York County DA Frank Hogan.
Tanenbaum returned to the West Coast and began to serve in public office. He was elected to the Beverly Hills City Council in 1986 and twice served as the mayor of Beverly Hills. It was during this time that Tanenbaum began his career as a novelist, drawing from the many fascinating stories of his time as a New York ADA. His successful debut novel, No Lesser Plea (1987), introduces Butch Karp, an assistant district attorney who is battling for justice, and Marlene Ciampi, his associate and love interest. Tanenbaum’s subsequent twenty-two novels portrayed Karp and his crime fighting family and eclectic colleagues facing off against drug lords, corrupt politicians, international assassins, the mafia, and hard-core violent felons.
He had published two nonfiction titles: The Piano Teacher (1987), exploring his investigation and prosecution of a recidivist psychosexual killer, and Badge of the Assassin (1979), about his prosecution of cop killers, which was made into a movie starring James Woods as Tanenbaum. His latest nonfiction book is Echoes of my Soul (2013) providing a first insider's account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, that led to the Miranda Rights, and of the courageous stand that forever reformed the American justice system.
Tanenbaum and his wife of forty-three years have three children. He currently resides in California where he has taught Advanced Criminal Procedure at the Boalt Hall School of Law and maintains a private law practice.
His latest and twenty-fifth Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi novel, Fatal Conceit, is out now.
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