Several cases are entwined in this new Butch Karp story: Karp, now acting district attorney, and his family and friends unmask legal, law-enforcement, and moral corruption as they separately and together face a terrorist threat, marshal a defense against four young black men claiming they were wrongly convicted, and review a rape charge brought by a student against her professor.

New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum delivers his grittiest, most ethically challenging thriller yet, as New York chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp fights for his family in the wilds of West Virginia's coal mining country. 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...

Manhattan D.A. Roger Butch Karp and his crime-fighting crew must race against the clock to stop a malicious terrorist plot that could change the course of history.

For Butch Karp, chief assistant district attorney for New York County, the nightmare begins when a shocking act of negligence results in homicide. The public and the D.A. is screaming for blood, and Karp must prosecute a fifteen-year-old Hispanic girl from a poor neighboorhood for murder.

Butch and Marlene, husband and wife, are each at an important turning point in their lives. Butch is back at work for the City, preparing to prosecute a suspect for a series of brutal slayings of elderly black women. Marlene's new detective agency specializes in helping women in domestic disputes. The pressure and the stakes are high for both, and the strain on their marriage is enormous. What neither realizes is that they are both about to become...

Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi discover themselves working on two sides of the same case when a set of double homicides rocks downtown Manhattan. A bloody warning scrawled on the wall above a murdered elderly couple sends the Jewish community reeling into a tension-filled confrontation with the city?s Arab population. In neighboring Brooklyn, a 16-year-old Arab runaway seeks refuge in Manhattan?s Hell?s Kitchen, where she becomes caught up in an ugly...

A tremendous blast rocks an established town eatery during a book-signing event that features the director and inspirational leading advocate of New York charter schools, killing three and wounding others. A neo-Nazi is the prime suspect, but the evidence leads Karp in another direction. The treacherous teachers union president has long been furious at the unqualified successes of the charter school movement in New York City, which threatens to expose...

"A convicted killer named Felix Tighe has escaped from prison and has vowed to hunt down and execute the NYPD detectives who arrested him years ago. But there's more - Tighe's also planning a fight to the death with Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp, the man who put him away." "Felix Tighe's laser-focused, obsessive hatred of Karp has simmered during his prison confinement, where he has spent time with Feisal Abdel Ridwan, a radical Islamic...

A prosecutor defies the FBI, CIA, and Mafia to bring terrorists to justice in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Justice Denied.
 
After hijacking a flight to Milwaukee, a group of Croatian terrorists inform the FBI of bombs they’ve planted across the country. If their demands are not met, the bombs will explode. The plan goes perfectly until one of the weapons goes off in...

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict erupts in NYC in this “hair-raising” pre-9/11 thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Material Witness (People).
 
An elderly Jewish couple has been gunned down in their Fourteenth Street delicatessen. Above them, anti-Israel graffiti has been scrawled in Arabic. Evidence points to a few clueless teens, but this seemingly

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