Fatal Conceit (Butch Karp) - Hardcover

Tanenbaum, Robert K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1451635575 ISBN 13: 9781451635577

Publisher: Gallery Books, 2014

Synopsis

A CIA chief dies under suspicious circumstances before he is about to testify about a controversial government cover-up involving a terrorist attack on the US mission in Chechnya. Butch Karp is on the case in this exciting installment to Robert K. Tanenbaum s bestselling series.
When the CIA director is murdered, Butch Karp finds himself battling a heavyweight opponent: the US government. The national presidential election campaign s foreign policy mantra has been that the terrorists are on the run and Bin Laden is dead. There are rumors that the CIA chief was going to deviate from the administration version of events, and that the government may have had something to do with his death. Can Karp expose the cover-up and find the Chechnyan separatists who aided the Americans at the mission and who have firsthand knowledge of the terrorist attack? Karp must also find his missing daughter, who has been taken hostage by the terrorists.
After the New York grand jury indicts the national presidential campaign chairman and the NSA spymaster for the murder of the CIA chief, Karp engages in an unforgettable courtroom confrontation with the defendants who have the full weight of the US administration, a hostile judge, and a compliant media supporting them. These sinister forces will stop at nothing to prevent Karp from bringing out the truth, even if they have to resort to murder."

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Review:

"Readers will find a well-constructed novel, including solid courtroom scenes. Prosecutor Butch Karp...is a talented and likable hero...conservatives will likely love the tone of ["Fatal Conceit"]."--Kirkus

"ONE HELL OF A WRITER." --"New York Post"

"Butch Karp is the best fictional prosecuting attorney in literature. . . . Tanenbaum is a phenomenal attorney and a remarkable storyteller: It is almost unfair to the rest of us. . . . "Outrage "grabs you at the outset and astonishes at each page . . . Riveting."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Lane

"Butch [Karp] is doing his courtroom dance, making fools of the smug politicians he believes were behind the murder. Tanenbaum shines in these positively balletic moments...[a] reliable thriller."--Booklist

Butch [Karp] is doing his courtroom dance, making fools of the smug politicians he believes were behind the murder. Tanenbaum shines in these positively balletic moments...[a] reliable thriller. --Booklist"

Readers will find a well-constructed novel, including solid courtroom scenes. Prosecutor Butch Karp is a talented and likable hero conservatives will likely love the tone of ["Fatal Conceit"]. --Kirkus"

ONE HELL OF A WRITER. "New York Post""

Butch Karp is the best fictional prosecuting attorney in literature. . . . Tanenbaum is a phenomenal attorney and a remarkable storyteller: It is almost unfair to the rest of us. . . . "Outrage "grabs you at the outset and astonishes at each page . . . Riveting. --#1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Lane"

About the Author:

Robert K. Tanenbaum is the author of thirty-one books twenty-eight novels and three nonfiction books: "The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer", "Badge of the Assassin", and "Echoes of My Soul". He is one of the most successful prosecuting attorneys, having never lost a felony trial and convicting hundreds of violent criminals. He was a special prosecution consultant on the Hillside strangler case in Los Angeles and defended Amy Grossberg in her sensationalized baby death case. He was Assistant District Attorney in New York County in the office of legendary District Attorney Frank Hogan, where he ran the Homicide Bureau, served as Chief of the Criminal Courts, and was in charge of the DA s legal staff training program.He served as Deputy Chief counsel for the Congressional Committee investigation into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He also served two terms as mayor of Beverly Hills and taught Advanced Criminal Procedure for four years at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and has conducted continuing legal education (CLE) seminars for practicing lawyers in California, New York, and Pennsylvania. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Tanenbaum attended the University of California at Berkeley on a basketball scholarship, where he earned a B.A. He received his law degree (J.D.) from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Visit RobertKTanenbaumBooks.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1451635575
• ISBN 13: 9781451635577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 431