Steve Martini Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Martini keeps getting better and better. -Tennessean (Nashville)When Emma Brauer is blamed in the mercy killing of her aged father, Robert Brauer, Paul Madriani steps in to defend her.

Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power in this electrifying tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini. One of the most successful lawyers in the country, Olinda Serna is a master at managing money as well as her influential clients. After years of fierce combat in the political trenches, Serna knows all the dirty secrets, where the bodies are buried, and how deeply they are stacked. When she’s killed in a roadside crash in the high desert of Southern California, powerful heads in Washington begin to panic, worried that their secrets may not be safe anymore. Alex Ives, a friend of Paul Madriani’s daughter, is accused of vehicular manslaughter in Serna’s death. Ives claims he had only one drink on the night of the accident, yet he can’t remember anything between the time he left for a party north of San Diego and the moment he woke up in a hospital the next morning. He’s still dazed and a little bruised, but also obviously very afraid. After all, a woman is dead, and he’s sure he didn’t kill her. To save an innocent young man’s life, the brilliant defense attorney must uncover everything he can about Serna and her clients—no matter how unsavory—a search that will lead him into a vortex of corruption, and at its center, a devious killer poised to strike again.

Navy SEALs are the military's elite—highly trained, deadly, and sworn to secrecy about the details of their dangerous and confidential missions. So when one of the men goes public about a high-profile assassination abroad, all of his comrades are thrown into peril. In this riveting novella, attorney Paul Madriani comes to the aid of a Navy SEAL who is pursued by his own government and facing possible prosecution for disclosures he says were made by others. When the soldier disappears, Paul finds himself ensnared in a deadly game of intrigue that forces him to track the man down before it is too late.

In California, two men argue in a parked car ... as the plot unfolds to profitably transfer secret technology into malevolent hands. In Ohio, a young woman slips away from her protectors for a morning run -- unaware that the killer she's being protected from waits in the darkness. The woman is Sarah, daughter of defense attorney Paul Madriani. Her assailant is the vengeful assassin named Liquida. Now Paul Madriani -- along with his companion, Joselyn Cole, and his law partner, Harry Hinds -- must venture into the vortex of international terror in search of an ice-cold killer and a trader of secrets before the ultimate weapon of mass destruction sets the world ablaze.

Katja è giovane e bella, di una bellezza provocante. È piena di sogni, e ha ciò che le serve per realizzarli. Katja potrebbe avere tutto dalla vita. Eppure è proprio la sua vita a essere in pericolo. Perché Katja è diventata particolarmente scomoda per qualcuno. Qualcuno di estremamente pericoloso. Quando l’avvocato Paul Madriani decide di difenderla, però, è lui a ritrovarsi in pericolo. Non si tratta soltanto di scagionare la bella Katja dalle prove schiaccianti che la accusano di un efferato duplice omicidio: la posta in gioco infatti sembra alzarsi ogni minuto che passa, perché Katja è a conoscenza di qualcosa che potrebbe cambiare non solo il suo destino, ma anche quello di migliaia di persone ignare della minaccia che pende sul loro capo. Una minaccia che gravita ben al di là dell’aula di tribunale. Katja non è soltanto un’accusata: è una testimone che sa troppo. Per questo non basta la condanna. Solo la sua morte può impedire che la minaccia venga sventata. La sua morte… E quella di chiunque la difenda.

An aging mastermind envisions a final plan to dismantle the right-wing establishment with a strike at the heart of the U.S. government. With funding, a lethal weapon, and a skilled professional at his side, he aims for a world-shaking attack. Meanwhile, San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani is still coping with the aftermath of a narrowly averted nuclear disaster at a naval base. Under pressure from federal authorities to remain silent about the incident, he faces a new dilemma with Joselyn Cole, a captivating weapons control expert who insists he must go public to prevent future threats. Complicating matters, Madriani is implicated in the murder of a political staffer in Washington, with suspicion falling on a notorious assassin known as "the Mexicutioner." This figure, a survivor of the San Diego attack, may be driven by a twisted vendetta against Madriani. As they delve deeper, Madriani and Cole grow increasingly concerned that the Old Weatherman and the assassin have united, plotting to plunge the city and the nation into chaos before they can unravel the mystery surrounding "the rule of nine."

New York Times bestselling master of suspense Steve Martini returns, ensnaring defense attorney Paul Madriani in a web of terror and death being spun in the shadows of America's most sacred and secretive institution—the Supreme Court. A writer is savagely slain while on a publicity tour—a literary provocateur who craved headlines, but whose last book may have gone too far. His revelations about secret language buried in the U.S. Constitution—and hints about an explosive missing letter of Thomas Jefferson's—may be enough to cause an irreparable tear in the fabric of the nation . . . and perhaps drove a volatile youth to homicide. But Paul Madriani thinks a troubled young man with dark connections has been chosen as a scapegoat to cover up something far deadlier that festers in America's political heart. And in the wake of the strange disappearance of a Supreme Court judge, Madriani must survive long enough to find the devastating answers hidden in the shadow of power.

Steve Martini crafts a gripping narrative that resonates with contemporary anxieties and future headlines. Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a weary public defender from Los Angeles, seeks solace in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Her only notable case involves a group of commercial fishermen afflicted by a mysterious illness that defies medical explanation, which Joss suspects is linked to industrial activities. Suddenly, Dean Belden, a wealthy entrepreneur, approaches her for legal assistance in establishing a business in the islands. Shortly after, Belden is summoned before a federal grand jury. Tragically, he dies in a catastrophic float plane explosion on Seattle's Lake Union just after his testimony, leaving Joss in the dark about the grand jury proceedings. Meanwhile, Gideon Van Ry, a nuclear fission expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, grapples with the unsettling disappearance of two tactical nuclear devices from a former Soviet storage facility. These weapons were last known to be packed for shipment to Belden Electronics, a company Gideon cannot trace. His only lead points to Joss Cole, the attorney who incorporated the elusive firm, intertwining their fates in a web of intrigue and danger.

A guide to the three Southeast Asian countries - Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. It provides coverage of Malaysia's natural attractions, and contains the lowdown on Singapore's burgeoning entertainment scene from alternative gigs to cutting-edge theatre, and uncovers the secret charms of secluded Brunei.