Vendeur : Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, Australie
Paperback. D W Buffa, Allen & Unwin. A riveting and suspenseful debut in the best-selling tradition of Scott Turow and Richard North Patterson. Defense attorney Joseph Antonelli is a stranger to defeat. Inside the courtroom and out, no one can resist his persuasive power. There doesn't seem to be a case - no matter how implausible - that is beyond him. Until the phone rings one crisp April morning and Judge Leopold Rifkin asks Antonelli to defend Johnny Morel, a con man and convicted drug dealer accused of raping his twelve-year-old stepdaughter, Michelle. The prosecution's case is riddled with inconsistencies, and Michelle's history of sexual abuse could be the perfect straw man for the defense. With the testimony of Morel's luscious wife, Denise, there just might be a way out of a conviction. Antonelli has never confused the legal system with justice, so it should have been routine to defend a man he knew was guilty. And it should have ended there. No one suspected it would end in murder. The Defense is a psychological study in suspense. In a world where morality has been reduced to a hefty legal fee and truth to a commodity, The Defense is a tour de force about the strengths of passion, the elusiveness of truth, and the lethal repercussions of injustice. Paperback. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781864486070-SECONDHAND
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Vendeur : Book Express (NZ), Shannon, Nouvelle-Zélande
Paperback. Etat : Fair. 309 pages. page edge foxed and tanned, inside cover very foxed, text lightly tannedThere are occasional echoes of Scott Turow and John Grisham in this debut thr iller by Oregon lawyer D. W. Buffa, but for the most part his voice is as refres hingly original as the sinuous plot line. I never lost a case I should have won , and I won nearly all the cases I should have lost, says the arrogant but undo ubtedly gifted criminal defense lawyer Joseph Antonelli. When his friend and men tor, Judge Leopold Rifkin, asks him to defend Johnny Morel, a man accused of rap ing his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Antonelli agrees. Morel is obviously guilty, b ut aided by the girl's lying, amoral mother, Antonelli plants enough seeds of do ubt to get the sleazeball off. Years later, after the girl has disappeared, the mother is shot to death--in Judge Rifkin's living room. Under Buffa's sly direct ion, these twists and turns add up to a wonderfully rich story. N° de réf. du vendeur 6657ab
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Vendeur : Manyhills Books, Traralgon, VIC, Australie
Trade Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Trade Paperback. 309 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1997. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. Minor edgewear and creasing to covers. Lightly tanned pages. Previous owner's name in ink. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 1864486074. ISBN/EAN: 9781864486070. Inventory No: 12030694. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. N° de réf. du vendeur 12030694
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