Steve Martini Livres

Brillant avocat, Paul Madriani n'avait aucune envie de s'attarder à Davenport, un comté perdu de l'Amérique profonde, où il a accepté de remplacer son ami le procureur Féretti qui vient de subir une opération. Mais Feretti meurt, et Paul se voit contraint de poursuivre l'enquête commencée : six cadavres mutilés et attachés, comme pour des meurtres rituels... Tout va mal pour Madriani : sa femme lui mène une vie infernale et exige de quitter cet endroit, les magistrats et les notables du lieu semblent s'être ligués pour lui rendre le travail impossible. Faux témoignages, cabales et enfin disparition du principal témoin, celui qui aurait vu l'un des meurtres : rien ne lui sera épargné. Démasquer le coupable dans ces conditions tient du miracle... Avocat lui-même, Steve Martini nous offre ici une intrigue solide, captivante, réaliste, qui l'impose au côté de John Grisham comme un maître du " thriller juridique ".

La liste est celle des best-sellers du New York Times... Abby Chandlis, 40 ans, romancière, rêve d'y entrer avec son nouveau livre écrit sous le pseudonyme de Gable Cooper. Son expérience avec ses trois derniers romans, qui n'ont fait que prendre la poussière sur des étagères ; lui a fait choisir un nom masculin mais elle doit à tout prix trouver l'auteur supposé qui assurera la promotion en son nom. Jack Jermaine est un homme à la beauté dévastatrice et au sombre passé. Amer, il rêve, devant sa malle de manuscrits refusés, d'écrire un roman à succès. Grâce à des stratagèmes juridiques qui tiennent plutôt d'un pacte avec le diable... Jack devient Gable Cooper. Lorsque Jack devient célèbre, Abby est à la fois séduite et prisonnière de sa propre création, mais elle ne sait rien de lui et le succès tourne à l'horreur... Sa maison est dévastée, sa meilleure amie est électrocutée, son ex-mari, un alcoolo violent, est découvert noyé. Du nord du Pacifique à New York, puis dans les îles Caraïbes, Abby est à la poursuite de la seule personne en qui elle peut avoir confiance, la seule qui peut prouver qu'elle est l'auteur du roman et mettre fin à son cauchemar qui fut son rêve : être l'auteur de La Liste...

Steve Martini weaves a story based on today's fears and tomorrow's headlines-riveting in its realism, genuine in its characters. Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., has opted for a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Joss has no significant clients other than a group of commercial fisherman suffering from a strange and serious illness, a condition that doctors cannot diagnose, and which Joss believes has an industrial cause. Then into her office comes Dean Belden, a well-heeled client in search of a lawyer to help him set up a business in the islands. Within days Belden is subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. Less than an hour after testifying, and before Joss can discover what happened in the secrecy of the grand jury room, Belden dies in a fiery explosion of his float plane on Seattle's Lake Union. Gideon Van Ry is a nuclear fission expert and a scholar in residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. One of his duties is to update the Center's database, an extensive catalog listing fissionable materials and weapons of mass destruction. Gideon is troubled by the apparent failure to account for two small tactical nuclear devices missing from a storage facility in the former Soviet Union. The two weapons were last seen in packing crates, to be shipped to an American company called Belden Electronics. Gideon has been unable to locate this firm, and now he is left with only one possible lead, the lawyer who incorporated the company-Jocelyn Cole.

Paul Madriani, the brilliant defense attorney from Compelling Evidence and Prime Witness , is back in a complex web of murder and deceit — this time within his own family. His wife Nikki has just died of cancer. On her deathbed, Nikki made Paul promise to look after her younger sister, Laurel Vega, who is mired in a bitter child-custody battle with her ex-husband, a powerful state senator. When Jack Vega's new wife is found slain execution-style, Laurel becomes the prime suspect. Paul — remembering his promise to his wife — has no choice but to take Laurel's case. But as he tries to mount a defense and probes deeper into the lives of those involved, he discovers a trail of betrayal and duplicity that hides the truth at every turn. A gripping drama that spirals toward its shattering conclusion, Undue Influence is a brilliant work from the author hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the newest superstar among fictionalizing attorneys."

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.

Defense attorney Paul Madriani is mired in a complex web of intrigue and murder when the sister of his late wife, embroiled in a bitter custody battle with her former husband, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her ex-husband and his new young wife.

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.

'The best debut, in my opinion, is COMPELLING EVIDENCE' John Grisham

'Gripping and very good indeed, with a quite startling conclusion' Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller schovat popis

San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani takes on a daunting case when he agrees to defend a highly decorated soldier who has been charged with the murder of a software tycoon who specialized in catering to the military, and his task is made more difficult by his client's unwillingness to talk, and the discovery that the victim was involved in a controversial government contract to combat terrorism.