ISBN: 9781864486070 - the defense [taschenbuch] by buffa, d.w. (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 309 pages. page edge foxed and tanned, inside cover very foxed, text lightly tannedThere are occasional echoes of Scott Turow and John Grisham in this debut thr iller by Oregon lawyer D. W. Buffa, but for the most part his voice is as refres hingly original as the sinuous plot line. I never lost a case I should have won , and I won nearly all the cases I should have lost, says the arrogant but undo ubtedly gifted criminal defense lawyer Joseph Antonelli. When his friend and men tor, Judge Leopold Rifkin, asks him to defend Johnny Morel, a man accused of rap ing his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Antonelli agrees. Morel is obviously guilty, b ut aided by the girl's lying, amoral mother, Antonelli plants enough seeds of do ubt to get the sleazeball off. Years later, after the girl has disappeared, the mother is shot to death--in Judge Rifkin's living room. Under Buffa's sly direct ion, these twists and turns add up to a wonderfully rich story.…