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Pocket Star, June 2005
Mass Market Paperback, 640 pages
ISBN-10: 0743452895
ISBN-13: 9780743452892
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The shooting death of a rap mogul is the first link in a sinister chain ensnaring New York District Attorney Butch Karp. With his wife and daughter on a New Mexico retreat, Karp is left to fend for his teenaged sons and himself. Descending into the hip-hop underworld to prosecute a killer, Karp comes head-to-head wih Andrew Kane, a powerful would-be mayor whose corrupt web of influence leads Karp to unveil a shocking church sex-abuse scandal. In a world where secrets can be buried for an often-deadly price, Karp discovers there is no safe haven.
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Chapter 1Linda Fairstein, author of Final Jeopardy, Likely to Die, and The Kills One of the most authentic voices in American crime fiction, Tanenbaum takes us on another turbocharged ride down mean streets, with characters we've come to love. Hoax is a brilliantly plotted thriller with enough twists and turns to live up to its name and enough heart-stopping action to keep you turning pages through the night.
Dr. Michael M. Baden, Forensic Pathologist and former Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York Tanenbaum's best Butch Karp thriller yet -- and that's no "hoax." His knowledge of the criminal justice system and forensic science is unequalled
-- brilliantly written.
Booklist ...Relentlessly builds suspense...cleverly planned to the last detail...
Vincent Bugliosiformer Los Angeles District Attorney and author of Helter Skelter and the acclaimed And the Sea Will TellUsing his previous experience as the top homicide prosecutor in the Manhattan DA's office, Tanenbaum, a master of mystery fiction, brings us Hoax, a suspenseful, action-packed thriller.
Catherine Crierformer judge, Court TV host, and bestselling author of The Case Against LawyersSo intimate a look into the heart of evil, Hoax seems more fact than fiction. Through a series of heinous murders, tawdry relationships, and internal corruptions, Tanenbaum delivers a devastatingly honest portrait of a legal system gone awry and the brave few who fight for justice.
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