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"Tanenbaum is one lawyer who can write with the best of them." --Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times bestselling author of Hollywood Hills "Tanenbaum is one hell of a writer." --New York Post "He has become a master of this genre, and Act of Revenge may be his most exciting and best effort to date." --Vincent Bugliosi, New York Times bestselling author of Helter Skelter A classic, pulse-pounding thriller from the legendary Robert K. Tanenbaum, Act of Revenge plunges the popular author's long-running series protagonists, New York City Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp and family, into the lethal heart of a bloody turf war between the Mafia and ruthless Chinese gangsters. An elite member of America's contemporary crime fiction and thriller royalty--a master whose work stands tall among the novels of John Sanford, Lee Child, Robert Crais, and Brad Meltzer--Tanenbaum entertains magnificently, displaying true storytelling muscle with Act of Revenge.… (more)
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Butch and Marlene, Tanenbaum's married sleuths, are back again and they're in fine fettle. I liked them when I first encountered them in No Lesser Plea quite a long time ago. They're a little
Wait! Come back! It's not like a Lifetime movie, I promise!
Butch and Marlene are facing off against the two scariest and cruelest entities on Planet Earth in this book. No, not Simon Cowell and Nina Garcia! The Mafia and the Chinese tongs. They poke their collective nose into what seems like a box-stock hit on a capo after their 12-year-old witnesses part of the war that led to the hit. Now she's a target, and so now it's Close to Home.
It's a taut, well-made thriller, and the stakes could NOT be higher. No, you don't need to read the books in order...this one would make a great place to start, for example. Tanenbaum made the leap from book-at-a-time good to series good a while ago. This 11-year-old outing is no exception.