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Heilbrun puts his legal expertise to use in this stunning and beautifully written thriller with a shocking twist. A beautiful woman is robbed and murdered. With her last breath, she identifies her assailant. Or does she? Damon Tucker, a young kid from Harlem, is quickly charged with the murder. He maintains his innocence despite some incredibly damning evidence. The only person standing between Damon and a possible death sentence is his public defender, Arch Gold, a tough courtroom veteran who knows the game of criminal justice. But in this case Gold quickly discovers that nothing is what it seems and the rules of evidence don t always apply.
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About the Author:
Robert Heilbrun has been an attorney since 1985. He lives with his family in New York City, where he is a staff attorney with The Legal Aid Society.
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Experience counts, especially when it comes to the courtroom. Like John Mortimer, Scott Turow, and John Grisham, Heilbrun, an attorney since 1985 and a New York City public defender, brings irreplaceable experience--actual hours logged as an attorney--to his brilliantly crafted debut novel. (Genes count, too; Heilbrun is the son of Carolyn Heilbrun, who writes the Kate Fansler series as Amanda Cross.) Heilbrun's hero, Arch Gold, is also an NYC public defender. His character has some heft behind it, too, in the form of an intriguing disconnect in his professional life. Gold, son of a bookie, graduate of Yale and Harvard, left the high-paying corporate-firm track after one year to pursue the pure grit of defending down-and-outers with no access to an attorney. From the first sentence, "Say your life breaks down . . .," Heilbrun draws the reader into his world, filling it with hard-won details--e.g., what it's like to ride in the attorneys' bus to Rikers Island, the world's largest penal colony, or what it's like to be left in lock-up overnight. He captures the desperation of his clients, especially that of the young black man at the center of the novel, arrested at the scene of the murder of a wealthy woman, who identified him as she lay dying on the sidewalk. Taken with the young man's plight, Gold crosses the line into investigation, pursuing the possibility that this "one-witness ID" (with a dead witness) results from cops trying to make a bad arrest stick. A guided tour through the criminal courts, with nail-biting courtroom scenes and a sock-o ending. Terrific. Connie Fletcher
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- PublisherThomas t Beeler
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1574905821
- ISBN 13 9781574905823
- BindingHardcover
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