Diatrix

Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp is finally recognized for his heroic service to New York City when a group of politicians back him for the top job as Manhattan's district attorney. But a series of cases involving vigilante murders begins to reveal the true motives of those civil servants standing by his side. It's Karp versus the dirty city in one of Tanenbaum's most revealing and caustic legal thrillers - a stunning indictment of civil corruption and overreach.

On the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife’s skull. Now, eight jurors must retire to the deliberation room and decide whether David committed premeditated murder—or whether he was a battered spouse who killed his wife in self-defense.

Travel back to a small Southern town where, before there was Duncan Motors, there were the Duncan brothers: Louis, aka Sweet Lou, a lover of ladies and life and a man you did not want to cross; Lawrence, aka Larry, a screw-up as attracted to trouble as it was to him; and Lavernius, better known as LC, the soft-spoken college boy who simply wanted to sell cars.

Damian Reigns, a Harvard-educated businessman with GQ looks, runs the Reigns family enterprise worth billions of dollars. His brother, Dante Reigns, a Princeton graduate with a degree in psychology, is a lethal weapon and ruthlessly protects the family business at any expense. Their sister, Princess Reigns, is calculating, manipulative, and just as deadly as her brothers, proving to be their enemy along with the Commission and the FBI. The FBI scrambles to locate missing field agents and take down the Reigns. In a last effort, they decide to send in one last decoy, Agent Moore.