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The Heyward Shepherd Conspiracy, by Map V. Ryan
ISBN: 9780615949444 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amidst the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Million Man March, a rookie DC lawyer is appointed to represent an indigent black man charged with breaking into a school. Liam McNaughton is the ultimate slacker lawyer - he dreams of quixotic Supreme Court challenges and CNN interviews, but he's never tried a case. His client's Unlawful Entry charge is only a misdemeanor, but the man has eight years of back-up time hanging over his head for the crime of feticide. And when the trial begins with the seating of an all-white jury, Liam finally...
Amidst the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Million Man March, a rookie DC lawyer is appointed...
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Millie: A cautionary tale of America's longest war
ISBN: 9781493554218 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine there were no drug dealers on our city streets There were no cartels perpetrating atrocities on our nation's borders. There were no hapless victims of the drug war committing crimes or prostituting themselves to get their next fix Our prisons were emptied of small time drug dealers and their victims, the drug dependent, the mentally ill, the casual pleasure seeker The Taliban could no longer finance their bombs and guns with money from Afghan heroin Our courts were free to provide timely justice for non-drug related crime The drug dependent among us receiving treatment,...
Imagine there were no drug dealers on our city streets There were no cartels perpetrating atrocities on our nation's borders. There were no hapless v...
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40,03 |
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The Silk Brief
ISBN: 9781481275347 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviews for the Silk Brief. "Just could not put this book down. The book transported my imagination where I was right inside a courtroom drama.... Fantastic, thoroughly recommend this book " "Both educational and entertaining ...I thought the author did an excellent job of introducing Americans to the British legal system (which bemuses many of us as much as cricket). I always love good summations, and these were of high calibre... The author demonstrated a mastery of providing meaningful snippets of personal life essentially in textual asides." "Author John Burton, Q.C. knows of whereof he...
Reviews for the Silk Brief. "Just could not put this book down. The book transported my imagination where I was right inside a courtroom drama.... Fan...
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Slow Death in the Fast Lane: A Brendan O'Brian Legal Thriller
ISBN: 9781494305376 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you hate the IRS, you'll love this book Years of creative accounting have landed Harvey Berkowitz in court, charged with criminal tax fraud. The government has a mountain of incriminating evidence and what appears to be an airtight case. But Harvey has Brendan O'Brian, an unconventional defense attorney with a reputation for winning seemingly unwinnable cases. O'Brian turns the tables on the government, putting the Tax Code and predatory IRS practices on trial with strategies that create a circus-like atmosphere in the normally staid federal court. Chaos... If you hate the IRS, you'll love this book Years of creative accounting have landed Harvey Berkowitz in court, charged with crimin... |
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The Immigration Lawyer: Asylum
ISBN: 9780615783789 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarah is a successful corporate lawyer who has taken a special interest in the immigration case of Ahmad, who's seeking asylum in the United States. Red flags fly fast and furious as Ahmad's case is handled by the Feds in a very non-routine manner. Ahmad came to the States after being imprisoned and tortured and Sarah is determined to get him the asylum he seeks. Representing Ahmad turns into a nightmare when she's targeted and attempts are made on her life. To make matters worse, her community wonders at her allegiance to America, but Sarah cannot allow Ahmad to be forced back to Iraq. She...
Sarah is a successful corporate lawyer who has taken a special interest in the immigration case of Ahmad, who's seeking asylum in the United States. R...
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39,98 |
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Partner Track
ISBN: 9781250056498 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ingrid Yung's life is full of firsts. A first-generation Chinese American, the first lawyer in her family, she's about to collect the holy grail of "firsts" and become the first minority woman to make partner at the venerable old law firm Parsons Valentine & Hunt. Ingrid Yung's life is full of firsts. A first-generation Chinese American, the first lawyer in her family, she's about to collect the holy grail of... |
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68,57 |
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I Am That Fool
ISBN: 9781478725190 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read this novel twice; once for the plot, and the second time for the themes of the meaning of contemporary American life. The first read will be fast, and you will be entertained. The second read will make you think not only about the criminal justice system in modern-day America, but also what it means to modern-day Americans as they live life under mythical circumstances. Meet Ryan Browne: The egotistical, brilliant trial lawyer whose life is turned upside-down as a result of an extramarital dalliance at a notorious strip club, The Proud Stallion. How would someone like him work his way...
Read this novel twice; once for the plot, and the second time for the themes of the meaning of contemporary American life. The first read will be fast...
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68,09 |
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Agnus DEI: The gripping story of evil, justice, sacrifice and atonement?
ISBN: 9781494369682 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS --- A gripping novel of evil, justice, sacrifice and atonement... As a junior barrister, Brendan Connolly receives a brief to defend a notorious paedophile. Although only assisting the QC, the silk is compromised mid-trial and forced to resign, leaving Brendan to assume the defence. He achieves the almost impossible - a verdict of not guilty by way of insanity - but the prospect of turning Johnson loose proves too much for the sincere and principled young barrister. In a shock move he dumps his girlfriend, defies his parents and quits the Bar to become a...
Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS --- A gripping novel of evil, justice, sacrifice and atonement... As a junior barrister, Brendan Connolly receiv...
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63,83 |
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Smooth in Meetings
ISBN: 9781495256615 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing up... tweaking the numbers... office liaisons... M&A... office politics... ethical challenges... the capriciousness of success... these are the subjects that Ethan Cooper addresses in SMOOTH IN MEETINGS, the second novel in the Corporate Quartet, his tetralogy of workplace fiction. In SMOOTH IN MEETINGS, a management shake-up blindsides Ward Wittman, a senior executive at a high tech company. Now, Ward has to prove his worth to a tough new boss, who has high expectations for Ward's fading product line. Compounding this stress is Ward's bittersweet family life, which features two...
Managing up... tweaking the numbers... office liaisons... M&A... office politics... ethical challenges... the capriciousness of success... these are t...
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Capture
ISBN: 9781476786810 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a rising starlet dies from a gunshot wound in the fashionable downtown penthouse of an eccentric Broadway producer, New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp and his hard-charging wife, Marlene Ciampi, smell drama. With the help of a fearful witness, Karp wages a relentless battle for justice against a notorious defendant, a legion of experts, and a barrage of hostile threats. Meanwhile, a shadowy international power group kidnaps Karp's daughter, Lucy. As Karp races to decode a baffling series of riddles, a beautiful but deadly Russian assassin hunts him. He must infiltrate the...
When a rising starlet dies from a gunshot wound in the fashionable downtown penthouse of an eccentric Broadway producer, New York District Attorney Ro...
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114,30 |
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Counterplay
ISBN: 9781476787916 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tanenbaum's last novel, Fury, ended with a breathtaking cliff-hanger. Now readers can enjoy the exciting conclusion -- bursting with more suspenseful twists -- in his latest, Counterplay. When betrayal results in the cold-blooded murder of a busload of school children to accomplish the escape from custody of vicious sociopath Andrew Kane, New York District Attorney Butch Karp finds himself embroiled in a raging quest for vengeance that could cost him, his family, and thousands of others their lives. Yet again, Robert K. Tanenbaum writes a masterful thriller involving the most memorable -- and...
Tanenbaum's last novel, Fury, ended with a breathtaking cliff-hanger. Now readers can enjoy the exciting conclusion -- bursting with more suspenseful ...
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121,93 |
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Building Better Babies: A novel of law, science, and suspense
ISBN: 9781497308305 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patent lawyer Hank Hannah is hired by Jean-Luc Rameau, CEO of World BioTech, to protect a process for building better babies. Sections of the DNA of athletes, scientists, musicians and beautiful people can be transplanted into the parents' genes, and hereditary disease eliminated. All goes well until the babies start getting sick. Chief inventor David Alexander develops a vitamin cocktail that can save them, and a disaster is averted. Then the US government learns of the development, and decides that it wants control of the technology. Rameau and Alexander are arrested. Only Hank Hannah has...
Patent lawyer Hank Hannah is hired by Jean-Luc Rameau, CEO of World BioTech, to protect a process for building better babies. Sections of the DNA of a...
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The Kingmaker Case: The State vs. Caleb Escueta
ISBN: 9781490731360 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kingmaker Case provides a first-hand account of the controversial private and public life of Caleb Escueta. As an amateur, Caleb Escueta had achieved success at every level. During his sophomore season, as a professional, some believed he was on his way to becoming one of the game's elite players. Then, Assistant District Attorney R. F. Sanchez revealed that Escueta had been charged with a crime, and the "Kingmaker" fell quickly from grace. With unique access, the novel explores the hidden contours of sex, lies, and the law.
The Kingmaker Case provides a first-hand account of the controversial private and public life of Caleb Escueta. As an amateur, Caleb Escueta had achie...
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The Kingmaker Case: The State vs. Caleb Escueta
ISBN: 9781490731384 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kingmaker Case provides a first-hand account of the controversial private and public life of Caleb Escueta. As an amateur, Caleb Escueta had achieved success at every level. During his sophomore season, as a professional, some believed he was on his way to becoming one of the game's elite players. Then, Assistant District Attorney R. F. Sanchez revealed that Escueta had been charged with a crime, and the "Kingmaker" fell quickly from grace. With unique access, the novel explores the hidden contours of sex, lies, and the law.
The Kingmaker Case provides a first-hand account of the controversial private and public life of Caleb Escueta. As an amateur, Caleb Escueta had achie...
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Untruths and Truths Untold
ISBN: 9781475117608 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The setting for this intriguing tale of political corruption, murder, and a trial lawyer's devotion to duty is fictional St. Claire City, a small Mississippi town located between Natchez and Baton Rouge. A hundred years earlier, St Claire City had been a river port alongside the Mississippi River but changes in the course of the mighty "Father of Waters" left the once-thriving port city to virtually die on the vine and, today, among the massive oak and cypress trees, thickly laden with Spanish moss, not-so-well-kept antebellum homes, fronting hand-fired brick streets, stand as evidence of the...
The setting for this intriguing tale of political corruption, murder, and a trial lawyer's devotion to duty is fictional St. Claire City, a small Miss...
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74,04 |
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Pascal's Last Gamble
ISBN: 9781477474440 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raj Pascal Rex is the most accomplished prosecutor in the San Diego District Attorney's Office. He is The King of trial attorneys. But his hard-charging nature has jeopardized his already shaky relationship with his girlfriend, Grace Schoenfeld. As he takes on the biggest case of his career, Rex will have to decide whether he's willing to risk everything to convict child killer Festus Green. In the process, Rex must confront the meaning of faith. Set in the context of a contemporary legal thriller, Pascal's Last Gamble traverses the realm of philosophy, exploring in depth the dimensions of...
Raj Pascal Rex is the most accomplished prosecutor in the San Diego District Attorney's Office. He is The King of trial attorneys. But his hard-chargi...
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Criminally Innocent
ISBN: 9781491725054 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carl Messina, a Manhattan-based partner at a global accounting firm, has achieved financial success, yet he considers himself a failure. An involuntary bachelor at forty-three, his only lasting relationship with a woman involves his mom. As Carl tells us, he would never have made partner were it not for his best friend of twenty-five years, Kavi Chander. Kavi, a poor teenager when he emigrated from India, is now the chief financial officer at ADG, one of the largest companies in the world. During an anniversary dinner, Kavi gets word of a scandal at ADG. Weeks later, it's pinned on him. He's...
Carl Messina, a Manhattan-based partner at a global accounting firm, has achieved financial success, yet he considers himself a failure. An involuntar...
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Criminally Innocent
ISBN: 9781491725061 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carl Messina, a Manhattan-based partner at a global accounting firm, has achieved financial success, yet he considers himself a failure. An involuntary bachelor at forty-three, his only lasting relationship with a woman involves his mom. As Carl tells us, he would never have made partner were it not for his best friend of twenty-five years, Kavi Chander. Kavi, a poor teenager when he emigrated from India, is now the chief financial officer at ADG, one of the largest companies in the world. During an anniversary dinner, Kavi gets word of a scandal at ADG. Weeks later, it's pinned on him. He's...
Carl Messina, a Manhattan-based partner at a global accounting firm, has achieved financial success, yet he considers himself a failure. An involuntar...
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135,85 |
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The Silk Head: The Silk Tales Volume 2
ISBN: 9781496038234 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Silk Head is the second title in The Silk Tales series and continues the story of David Brant QC, a criminal barrister, a Queen's Counsel, practising in London. After an unexpected phone call from his ex-wife, David is instructed in a murder trial, representing a brave and badly injured London Fireman who is charged with stabbing his lover to death. As David gets to grips with the case he reaches the inescapable conclusion that the prosecution has a strong, albeit, circumstantial case against his client The story begins with the police investigation and unfolds fully in the court-room,...
The Silk Head is the second title in The Silk Tales series and continues the story of David Brant QC, a criminal barrister, a Queen's Counsel, practis...
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73,00 |
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The Target Defendant
ISBN: 9781610272346 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Herrick is the lawyer for the little guy in Houston, Texas. His courtroom experiences have been realistically recounted in David Crump's previous novels CONFLICT OF INTEREST, THE HOLDING COMPANY, AND MURDER IN SUGAR LAND. Now Herrick faces an international enemy of unbridled arrogance and ruthlessness: the drug kingpin El Jefe, whose petty grudge against a local reporter was expressed in a family bloodbath. Can a civil lawsuit against El Jefe's American bank bring some measure of justice? A mass murder wipes out three generations of a family, all hacked with machetes. It's a horrific...
Robert Herrick is the lawyer for the little guy in Houston, Texas. His courtroom experiences have been realistically recounted in David Crump's previo...
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69,00 |
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