Segui il percorso di un avvocato difensore determinato, che naviga all'intersezione tra legge e moralità. Ogni caso lo immerge in un vortice di intricate trame, tradimenti e colpi di scena inaspettati. Immergiti in un avvincente mondo di thriller legali dove la verità è spesso sfuggente e la giustizia deve farsi strada attraverso intricate vicende umane. Questa serie metterà alla prova i limiti della legge e del coraggio umano.
Paul Mandriani è un ottimo avvocato, ma ha commesso un imperdonabile errore: è stato l'amante di Talia Potter, l'avvenente moglie del suo capo. Un tradimento che gli è costata l'interruzione di una brillante carriera nello studio legale Potter & Scarpellos e la fine del suo matrimonio. Ad aggravare la sua posizione si aggiunge l'assassinio di Ben Potter. L'irrequieta vedova, su cui cadono i sospetti degli inquirenti, chiede l'aiuto di Paul. L'uomo non è forse il difensore più obiettivo, ma è certamente l'unico che può salvare Talia dalla camera a gas.
In the space of five days the college town of Davenport is rocked by four brutal murders: two couples - students - their bodies found tied and staked out on the banks of Putah Creek. Then two more bodies are discovered. This time the victims are Abbott Scofield, a distinguished member of the university faculty, and his former wife Karen. The police suspect Andre Iganovich, a Russian immigrant, but Paul Madriani thinks there is more to the case than meets the eye. Forensic reports on the physical evidence suggest lingering questions about the Russian's involvement in the Scofield killings, and Paul becomes increasingly convinced that the second murders are the product of a copy-cat killer - a cold and calculating murderer who has taken the lives of the Scofields for reasons that Paul is determined to uncover...
L'avvocato Paul Madriani l'ha promesso alla moglie: assisterà la cognata Laurel nella causa contro l'ex marito Jack Vega per l'affidamento dei figli. Ma quando Melanie, la giovane nuova moglie di Jack è trovata morta nella vasca da bagno, la faccenda si complica un bel po'. Tutte le prove incastrano Laurel e la sua causa, nata come una delle tante crudeli battaglie legali di un matrimonio fallito, si trasforma inaspettatamente in un processo per omicidio di primo grado. Cercando la verità Paul scopre parecchie cose che non quadrano: testimoni misteriosamente scomparsi, prove inquinate, manovre politiche per insabbiare verità compromettenti. Scopre soprattutto un lato oscuro di Laurel, che non aveva mai conosciuto. Questa volta vuole la verità, senza compromessi: Laurel è colpevole di omicidio?
Chi avrebbe mai potuto immaginare che l'inflessibile, integerrimo, insopportabile giudice Acosta sarebbe finito in mezzo a una squallida storia di prostituzione? Quando poi la testimone chiave nella causa contro il giudice viene assassinata, le cose si mettono davvero male: tutti gli indizi sembrano contro di lui. Ma è proprio Madriani, l'avvocato che più di tutti ha combattuto Acosta in aula, a intuire che, sotto quelle accuse apparentemente inattaccabili, scorre un fiume melmoso di invidia e di corruzione, e ad accettare la difesa di un uomo che non gli ha mai ispirato la minima fiducia...
Il vecchio Jonah Hale vive con la moglie e l'adorata nipotina Amanda, della quale ha ottenuto l'affidamento quando sua figlia Jessica l'ha abbandonata. Però, dopo aver scontato una condanna per droga, Jessica, con la collaborazione di Zolanda Suade, una fanatica avvocatessa che difende madri disperate, fa rapire Amanda. E quando Zolanda viene ritrovata uccisa nella propria auto, il primo ad essere accusato di delitto è ovviamente Jonah, privo di alibi e con molti indizi che rischiano di schiacciarlo.
David Crone, noto scienziato, a capo di un importante progetto di genetica, èaccusato di aver barbaramente ucciso la sua giovane e avvenente collegaafroamericana, Kalista Jordan. Le prove contro lo studioso sono numerose: lapresenza in casa dell'uomo delle fascette serrafilo con cui la donna è statastrangolata, un rapporto di lavoro culminato in un violento litigio, unadenuncia per molestie sessuali. La situazione processuale diventa disperataquando si presenta a testimoniare la madre della vittima che accusa loscienziato di condurre ricerche di genetica razziale. Paul Madriani, avvocatodifensore di Crone, è l'unico, a dispetto delle numerose prove control'imputato, convinto dell'innocenza del suo assistito.
"Lean, speedy and packing a wallop of a plot twist" was Publishers Weekly's verdict of Steve Martini's The Jury . Now Martini crafts yet another legal nail-biter featuring perennial favorite attorney Paul Madriani. After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend the man, but to find out who killed his friend and why. Madriani is tortured by questions of conflict, his duty to a client who may have killed his friend, and the need to know the truth, wondering whether he himself had been marked for death only to have a friend die in his place. Soon he is drawn into a vortex of crime that spans the Americas. As he searches for the killer, Madriani rides the crest of a dangerous wave of international drug deals and people who murder for money. Suddenly he realizes it is not heroin or cocaine that resulted in the murder of his friend, but a priceless piece of pre-Columbian art-something so dazzling in the information it holds as to be one of the treasures of the ages. In a quest that takes Madriani from California to Mexico and the Guatemalan border, he discovers that while the motive to kill may be driven by distant, exotic, and ancient artifacts, the killer, like a serpent, lies much closer at hand.
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.
The story follows defense attorney Paul Madriani as he navigates a complex case filled with Cold War secrets and treachery. He becomes entangled with a rare coin dealer linked to the CIA and faces a relentless assassin. This gripping narrative combines legal drama with thrilling elements, making it a standout installment in the bestselling series.
Still reeling from the trauma of a near nuclear explosion at the naval base in Coronado, San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani now finds he's been linked to the murder of a Washington, D.C., political staffer. Authorities believe the bloodthirsty assassin Liquida Muerte—aka "the Mexicutioner"—may be responsible, and that Madriani is the ultimate target of the killer's twisted vengeance. But the danger pales before an even more terrible unfolding scenario. Evidence is mounting that the elusive maniac and a domestic terrorist who calls himself the Old Weatherman have joined forces, intending to strike at the very seat of the United States government, pulling the capital city—and the country—into a vortex of terror . . . unless Paul Madriani and weapons control expert Joselyn Cole can somehow unravel the enigma of . . . The Rule of Nine.
The Old Weatherman dreams of a plan that could be his swan song, an attack to drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing establishment and bury it for good. Now he's found the money, the ideal weapon, and the professional who knows how to use it. And he has set his sights on the perfect target at the very seat of the United States government, in the heart of downtown Washington. It will be a strike heard round the world. San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani is still reeling from the trauma of a near nuclear explosion he helped avert at the naval base in Coronado. Threatened by federal authorities to keep quiet about the close call in California, Madriani is now faced with a new problem in the steely-eyed and alluring Joselyn Cole, a weapons control expert, who believes he has to go public with what he knows if they have any hope of stopping a similar event in the future. But Madriani has been linked to the murder of a Washington, D.C., political staffer, and authorities believe a shadowy figure called Liquida - a hired assassin known as "the Mexicutioner" - may be responsible. And this man, as the last survivor of the attack in San Diego, might be driven by a bizarre and horrifying star-crossed vendetta, and might now be looking for Madriani himself. What Madriani and Cole begin to fear is that the Old Weatherman and this madman have joined forces and intend to pull the city - and the country - into a vortex of terror before Madriani and Cole can find answers to the enigma that is "the rule of nine."
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.
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.
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.
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.
