Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Legal

Major Melinda Lewis of the US Army Corps of Engineers doesn't want to be a whistleblower, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, she has little choice. She can see, with a trained engineer's eye, how and why New Orleans's levees failed. Just as when she first brought her concerns to Washington, DC, however, she's again ignored and ridiculed.

Determined to prove political maneuvering and incompetency caused New Orleans to flood, Lewis joins forces with environmental groups, and together they demand that the Bush administration, FEMA, and the Army Corps of Engineers explain their...

In a brazen act, Wall Street billionaire Max Heller's wife is kidnapped in broad daylight. Although the original ransom demand calls for the payment of only ten million dollars, it soon increases when the kidnappers decide to extort more money from an increasingly irate billionaire whose motivation for securing his wife's freedom is called into question.

After Mrs. Heller has been released, law enforcement officials suspect that the wealthy Wall Street financier may have played a role in his wife's kidnapping. As the police and FBI pursue dual investigations, it becomes apparent that...

This book is based on the true life experiences of an immigration lawyer-a totally assimilated, third-generation Mexican-American-who felt it necessary to represent the unrepresented and underrepresented humans in the United States. He was full of idealistic ideas, ambition, and a willingness to try whatever he could to help his clients. It is also a story of compassion, sadness, and the effort to help the hopeless cases. Good intentions are often punished-and this book explores jaded politics, bribes, and consequences.

The football game is tied. It's in sudden death overtime. And that's when three Islamic extremists trigger an explosion that kills over 100 innocent spectators. The men who did it are promptly caught and charged with capital murder, but everyone knows that there are more guilty people behind the act. There are banks, or foundations, or governments who fronted this terrorism. "Terrorists need money. "

Families of the victims ask attorney Robert Herrick-the "Lawyer for the Little Guy"-to bring the financiers to justice. It's a tough claim, and he declines . . . but eventually he's...