9780805053074: The Defense

Synopsis

A first novel in the vein of Scott Turow introduces defense attorney Joseph Antonelli, who has never lost a case, until he is presented with Johnny Morel, accused of raping his stepdaughter, and Antonelli thinks it is just another routine case, but the verdict is murder. 100,000 first printing.

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About the Author

D. W. Buffa received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in political science. For ten years he worked as a defense attorney in Oregon. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Defense is his first novel.

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Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, the honorable Judge Rifkin, has asked him a favor: Defend a drug dealer accused of raping his twelve-year-old stepdaughter. Yet Antonelli's acceptance of the case sets in motion an explosive chain of corruption, betrayal, and murder that will leave no one unscathed. . . .

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