Due Diligence (Rachel Gold Novels) - Hardcover

Kahn, Michael A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525937439 ISBN 13: 9780525937432

Publisher: Dutton, 1995

Synopsis

When attorney Rachel Gold investigates the murders of her prospective client, Bruce Rosenthal, and her boyfriend Marcus, once Rosenthal's rabbi, she uncovers intrigue in the local pharmaceutical industry, dark dealings that lead to a powerful senator with presidential aspirations. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael A. Kahn is the award-winning author of several novels, praised by Publishers Weekly for their “intelligent, breezy dialogue and clever plotting.” A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Kahn began his literary career writing free-lance feature articles for Chicago Magazine while teaching fifth grade in the Chicago public schools. Now a trial attorney in St. Louis, he wrote his first novel on a dare from his wife, who got sick of hearing him announce, each time he finished a paperback thriller that he’d purchased at an airport newsstand, “I could write a better book than this.” “Then write one,” she finally said, “or please shut up.”

From Booklist:

St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold is falling in love with Rabbi David Marcus. When a member of Marcus' synagogue, Bruce Rosenthal, cancels his appointment with Rachel and then turns up murdered, both Rachel and David assume the aborted appointment is somehow connected to the crime. Then Marcus is also murdered in what seems to be the work of an anti-Semitic hate group. Rachel, determined to solve both murders, discovers that Rosenthal was negotiating the merger of a small pharmaceutical firm with a larger conglomerate. The trail leads from there through the jungle of corporate law to the pharmaceutical firm's former owner, current Missouri senator and presidential hopeful Douglas Armstrong. The plotting is intricate, the dialogue witty, and Rachel's supporting cast, which includes a transsexual secretary named Jacki (formerly a steelworker named Jack), is memorable. Fine reading. Wes Lukowsky

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0525937439
• ISBN 13: 9780525937432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336