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When Judge Armando 'The Coconut' Acosta is caught with a prostitute, few are sympathetic. Lawyer Paul Madriani has a long history of enmity with the judge and considers Acosta's arrest to be the consequence of a lifetime of corruption. Even when the call girl is found to be a beautiful police academy recruit and the entire case appears to be a set-up, Paul is still reluctant to step in and save the judge's career from impending doom. Then the police recruit is brutally killed and Acosta is charged with murder.
Lenore Goya, an ambitious defence lawyer, takes on Acosta's case and reluctantly Madriani is persuaded to come on board - they both know he owes her one. Together they uncover the shocking evidence, the ugly lies, the deceit and the corruption that are at the bottom of the most complex and terrifying murder trial of Madriani's career.
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It is increasingly difficult to determine Steve Martini's motives for writing. Undue Influence and Compelling Evidence both contain sideswipes at the social origins of much that leads to the central events of those novels, but in The Judge there is a sustained attack on the very fabric of law and its enforcement in Capital City. The judge may be innocent of the crime for which he is arraigned, but his lack of innocence in a broader context is what has made him vulnerable. The city's finest must surely be disconcerted to see themselves stained by corruption charges, which bring the judge into the dock; and even the DA and his minions are portrayed here as just as culpable as anyone else. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the presiding judge at Acosta's trial is incorruptible - he is an out-of-towner with few if any political waters to chum. Another splendid, often humorous, direct, worrying, highly readable novel from a writer who, until, The Attorney, could not fail to impress.
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The Paul Madriani saga continues... With superb courtroom dialogue! The surprise ending is just that, a big surprise. And not that much romance or worse, for a change! A first rate legal thriller.
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The Paul Madriani saga continues... With superb courtroom dialogue! The surprise ending is just that, a big surprise. And not that much romance or worse, for a change! A first rate legal thriller.
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