Deputy D.A. Butch Karp knows why people kill. For revenge ... profit ... survival ... pleasure. But for some, murder is beyond reason ...An elderly shopkeeper is found brutally slain in Manhattan.An undercover cop is shot to death while off duty.A third victim is spotted floating in the Hudson Ri...
One of Tanenbaum's or is it Michael Gruber's best efforts. It started a little slow and the last chapters were a little anticlimactic, nevertheless it was a terrific read.The Butch Karp series has always been peopled with astounding characters and this volume does not disappoint. Even Ray Guma, t...
THIS SUMMARY/REVIEW WAS COPIED FROM OTHER SOURCES AND IS USED ONLY AS A REMINDER OF WHAT THE BOOK WAS ABOUT FOR MY PERSONAL INTEREST. ANY PERSONAL NOTATIONS ARE FOR MY RECOLLECTION ONLYPersonal note, finished it by barely. Finished but can't even remember how it ended now. I finished it, so a '2...
From the book desc.This was to "out there" for me. The best part is Karp and CiampiBook Two of the bestselling Butch Karp legal thriller series: the prosecutor goes after Cold War terrorists and finds himself tangled up with the CIA, the FBI, and the Mafia Butch Karp has never shied away from a ...
National bestselling author Robert K, Tanenbaum brings Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi back in his latest thriller of street justice and courtroom intrigue!Butch, the chief of the Manhattan District Attorney's Homicide Bureau, faces the toughest legal challenge of his career, facing off against one...
"The most interesting pair of characters in the suspense genre" (Chicago Tribune), chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp and his wife, private security consultant Marlene Ciampi, are caught in the deadliest cross fire of their careers- an escalating war between New York's Mafia crime syndi...
Now with a powerful New York law firm, Butch Karp finds himself battling his former employer, City Hall, in the name of the city's chief medical examiner. Meanwhile, his wife Marlene has opened a private detective agency specializing in protection from domestic violence. But even though their car...
"While New York City sizzles beneath a blanket of early summer humidity, the Karp family is happily taking refuge in their renovated farmhouse on Long Island's north shore. Karp's battles against the City's corrupt politicans are never-ending. His wife, Marlene, is training guard dogs on their pi...
In the world of legal fiction, Robert K. Tanenbaum has emerged with a style, a vision, and a following all his own. In Justice Denied, Butch Karp is newly appointed Homicide Bureau Chief of the New York District Attorney's office. Karp, the prosecutor with a perfect record of guilty verdicts, fin...
The honorable Supreme Court Justice Charles Hart, Jr., presiding. Your Honor, case on trial is ready to proceed,” said Chief Court Clerk Jim Farley. As Farley called the courtroom to order, the jurist swept in, his black robe billowing behind him as he crossed the distance between the door that l...
He was now fully aware of the treachery and deceit that had taken place. As his thoughts swirled, he watched children chase after one another in the late-afternoon heat while vendors hawked hot dogs, soda, and knishes to passersby, and panhandlers worked the crowd. His attention was drawn to a yo...
She was the only white person in the crowded cafe—famous for its shorba, a puree of lamb, served with warm kisra bread—as well as the only female not wearing a hajib. In fact, she was dressed in tight, black leather pants, a form-fitting white T-shirt, a black leather coat and beret, and large, w...
They walked hand in hand until they reached the main doorway, at which point the woman pulled away. From this you could tell that they were not going into the courthouse to be married; if they had been, the woman would have held on tighter. In fact, both of them worked in the courthouse, as assis...
Karp immediately swept her up into a hug that raised her shiny little shoes several inches off the ground. She kissed him loudly on both cheeks. "Uhh! What a monster!" she cried. "My ribs are broken. Come in, come in!" She ushered them out of the dim hallway and into a lar...
Chase Fitzgerald nodded and grinned as he looked back at Zak and gave the signal. High and tight. A brushback pitch—a head-high fastball meant to intimidate a batter and move him off the plate. Or in this case, he’s hoping I’ll hit Esteban or at least scare the shit out of him, Zak thought. Coach...
I can’t believe I’m doing this. I had a thing going with my contracts professor in law school. Nice guy, married, three kids. I sweated bullets in that course. I mean, we agreed that we were going to keep it separate, sex and grades. So like three people ever aced contracts since 1706, or somethi...
When Delaney made his declaration, Mel had to think quickly about how to handle the confrontation. He knew the interchange between him and the Delaneys would go a long way in establishing a relationship that could be invaluable in uncovering the real killer. Mel was aware that Delaney—who had bee...