Trap (Butch Karp / Marlene Ciampi) - Hardcover

PRAISE FOR ROBERT TANENBAUM'S LEGAL THRILLERS
"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

"Those outraged by how the government handled the 2012 debacle in Benghazi will find a lot to like."--Publishers Weekly

"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

In the next courtroom drama in the "New York Times" bestselling Karp-Ciampi series, Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi get tangled up in a web of misdirection and must unravel it in time to solve a mass murder.
When a tremendous blast rocks an old school building in East Harlem during a meeting of the New York Charter Schools, killing six and wounding a dozen others, it's initially blamed on a natural gas explosion. However, as Butch Karp digs a little deeper, he discovers the explosion was the work of a mysterious serial arsonist in the employ of the teacher's union president, who is angry at the unqualified successes of the charter school movement in New York City and worried for the corrupt public school system. Also involved in the planning and cover-up is a major law enforcement player and a political hack who panders to the union for financial support and gets caught up in the homicidal scheme.
At least that's the conclusion Butch Karp is operating under when he indicts the pair for murder. But is it a trap? Is there another motive behind the attack that could derail the case? How will Karp discover it and can he do so in time to bring justice to the murdered and maimed? It all ends in the kind of dramatic courtroom showdown that "New York Times" bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum is best at, and that "Booklist" called "positively balletic."