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Defense attorney Paul Madriani takes on the case of Emiliano Ruiz, a career soldier on trial for the murder of a beautiful businesswoman and the head of a high-tech software company with a number of military contracts, only to discover that his uncooperative client refuses to discuss his past and that the murders could be tied to a number of explosive government secrets. 250,000 first printing.
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Steve Martini is the author of The Arraignment, The Jury, The Attorney, and other New York Times- bestselling novels featuring attorney Paul Madriani. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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The "double tap" of the title refers both to ballistics evidence--two shots, only an inch apart, to the victim's head--and to the way wars have of reaching out to veterans, spattering past trauma into the present. Martini's latest legal thriller starring California defense attorney Paul Madriani weaves the theme of the past infiltrating the present throughout a daunting case. The body of an extremely wealthy businesswoman, CEO of a corporation specializing in defense, is found with two tightly grouped bullet wounds to the head, suggesting the work of an expert marksman. Enter the most likely suspect: a career soldier who was on the victim's security detail and with whom she was having an affair. As Madriani attempts to defend the uncooperative soldier, he discovers that the victim's company was involved in a potentially devastating antiterrorist program. The plot progresses in a satisfyingly logical way, from first interview with the suspect through legal machinations and on to a tense, utterly believable courtroom battle. Plot and legal knowledge are Martini's strength. Dialogue, however, is his weakness. Characters continually deliver off-the-cuff, incredibly detailed descriptions of scenes that seem much more writerly than conversational. And Martini is often guilty of overdescription--three pages of the businesswoman handing her keys to a valet parking attendant. Still, in this case, the plot carries the prose. Connie Fletcher
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- PublisherPutnam Adult
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0399150927
- ISBN 13 9780399150920
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages432
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