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Informationen zum Autor Robert K. Tanenbaum is one of the country's most successful trial lawyers, having never lost a felony case. He ran the Homicide Bureau and was Bureau Chief of the Criminal Courts for the New York District Attorney's Office and Deputy Chief Counsel to the Congressional Committee investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He has taught Advanced Criminal Procedure at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the author of twenty-two Butch Karp novels and two true-crime books. Klappentext "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 syndicate and war between New York's Mafia crime syndicate and its lethally powerful Chinese gang. This time, though, the stakes have never been higher or more dangerous--for their vivacious twelve-year-old daughter is the target. Zusammenfassung “Tanenbaum is one lawyer who can write with the best of them.” —Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times bestselling author of Hollywood Hills “Tanenbaum is one hell of a writer.” — New York Post “He has become a master of this genre, and Act of Revenge may be his most exciting and best effort to date.” —Vincent Bugliosi, New York Times bestselling author of Helter Skelter A classic, pulse-pounding thriller from the legendary Robert K. Tanenbaum, Act of Revenge plunges the popular author’s long-running series protagonists, New York City Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp and family, into the lethal heart of a bloody turf war between the Mafia and ruthless Chinese gangsters. An elite member of America’s contemporary crime fiction and thriller royalty—a master whose work stands tall among the novels of John Sanford, Lee Child, Robert Crais, and Brad Meltzer—Tanenbaum entertains magnificently, displaying true storytelling muscle with Act of Revenge. ...
