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From the dark fantasies of a sexual underworld to thedarkest realities of a terrorist conspirator, New York Times bestselling authorRobert K. Tanenbaum draws District Attorney Butch Karp deep into a combustiblecourtroom game of politics, power, lies, and murder.Awaiting trial in theTombs, Manhattan's infamous criminal detention complex, is Sharif Jabbar, thedemagogic founder of a Harlem mosque. Charges against his terrorist attack onthe city were dismissed once, and now that the Islam convert is being held onnew allegations, New York District Attorney Roger 'Butch' Karp is determined tobring him down. He faces formidable competition. Attorney Megan O'Dowd, aradical activist enthralled with revolutionary rhetoric, is going to the matwith the uncompromising conviction that Jabbar is being railroaded by theNYPD.Outside the criminal courts, Karp's wife, Marlene Ciampi, is pursuing herown investigation. Allegations against indigent Manhattan street vendor DirtyWarren in the murder of society beauty Michelle Oakley don't sit right withMarlene. Unfortunately her sole ally is religious vigilante David Grale, thecharismatic but deranged leader of the Mole People. What Grale knows about citycorruption snakes as far and wide as the dank honeycomb of the sewers andtunnels his destitute army calls home.Then Marlene discovers an unexpected -and ugly - parallel between the Oakley murder and the disappearance of anotherdebutante: a treacherous underworld of upscale call girls and the price paidfor indulging the wealthiest of men. As she explores these sordid truths, ButchKarp navigates his own tortured waters. What he soon discovers is thateveryone, from the conspiratorial Jabbar and O'Dowd to the city's mostpowerful, unimpeachable players - has a secret that could either set them freeor cost them more than they ever feared.
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