Юридический триллер 131 книга

Rita Morrone is one of the toughest trial lawyers in Philadelphia. When a distinguished federal judge (and her prospective father-in-law) is accused of sexually harrassing his young secretary, Morrone takes on the defence of what becomes one of the most high-profile cases in the country.

Politics has always been a dirty game.

Now justice is, too.

In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.

Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided?

The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.

The Appeal is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave readers unable to think about our electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again.

La política siempre ha sido un juego sucio. Ahora la justicia también lo es. Corrupción política, desastre ecológico, demandas judiciales millonarias y una poderosa empresa química, condenada por contaminar el agua de la ciudad y provocar un aumento de casos de cáncer, que no está dispuesta a cerrar sus instalaciones bajo ningún concepto. Grisham, el gran mago del suspense, urde una intriga poderosa e hipnótica, en la que se reflejan algunas de las principales lacras que azotan a la sociedad actual: la justicia puede ser más sucia que los crímenes que pretende castigar.

Миллиардер Карл Трюдо не раз успешно проворачивал крупные аферы на Уолл-стрит. Но сейчас ему предстоит почти невозможное — переиграть Верховный суд штата Миссисипи.

Против него — едва ли не все жители маленького городка, которых буквально травит принадлежащая ему химическая фабрика. Уже вынесен вердикт присяжных, заключивших, что именно Трюдо повинен в болезнях сотен горожан и гибели нескольких из них.

Однако любой вердикт может быть оспорен, и любое, даже самое, казалось бы, безнадежное дело может быть выиграно, считает Трюдо. Деньги и связи решают все. Ради спасения своей империи он готов пойти ва-банк — подать апелляцию. И на сей раз магнат уверен: присяжные будут играть по его правилам.

Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one’s surprise — especially Troy’s — are circling like vultures. Nate O’Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who’s lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, and he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humor. Returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it’s going to be murder. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumbrances, and went to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil.

Двадцать лет назад секретарша Ванесса Келлер оказалась на месте убийства шефа – сенатора США и успела узнать в убегавшем преступнике своего возлюбленного, Карла Райса. Тогда ему удалось скрыться.

Но теперь внезапно Ванесса узнает его в одном из участников кровавой драки на стадионе – и связывается с ФБР.

Карла арестовывают и собираются судить.

Однако за его защиту берется адвокат Эми Вердано, готовая доказать: Карл – всего лишь марионетка в руках могущественных кукловодов…

New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is back, this time with a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C. 's halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth.

When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to run for her life.

In Oregon, Brad Miller, a junior associate in a huge law firm is working on the appeal of a convicted serial killer. Clarence Little, now on death row, claims he was framed for the murder of a teenager who, at the time of her death, worked for the then governor, Christopher Farrington. Suddenly, a small-time private eye and a fledgling lawyer find themselves in possession of evidence that suggests that someone in the White House is a murderer. Their only problem? Staying alive long enough to prove it.

Executive Privilege, with its nonstop action, unforgettable characters, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, proves once again that Phillip Margolin-whose work has been hailed as "frighteningly plausible" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and "twisted and brilliant" (Chicago Tribune)-belongs in the top echelon of thriller writers.

Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild Justice and Proof Positive, is back – in this tale of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past… and into the crosshairs of a killer.

Charlie Marsh, a petty crook and con man, becomes a national hero when he rescues the warden of a state penitentiary during a prison riot, but it doesn't take long before Charlie is wanted in connection with the death of a United States congressman. Now, after living twelve years in the African nation of Batanga, at the mercy of power-mad dictator Jean-Claude Baptiste, Charlie flees for home to face his murder charge after Baptiste learns about Charlie's affair with the tyrant's favorite wife.

But it's not just the state of Oregon that's out to get him. Criminal lawyer Amanda Jaffe has her work cut out for her. She must keep Charlie off death row, protect him from Baptiste's secret police, and prevent him from being murdered by a shadowy killer who will do anything to keep the truth about a decade-old crime buried forever.

Defense attorney Paul Madriani gets caught in a web of deceit and murder involving Cold War secrets, a rare coin dealer who once worked for the CIA, and a furious assassin in one of the most entertaining novels yet in this New York Times bestselling series.

A woman pauses in the hallway of a darkened San Diego beach house at night – listening for just the right moment when she can flee before her companion notices that she's gone.

A man outside watches the same mansion, waiting for a sign that he can enter on his mission of blood and carnage.

So begins this riveting new tale about Paul Madriani and his latest case – that of Katia, a woman accused of an unlikely crime – a trial that will unravel a careful but horrifying conspiracy. Madriani soon realizes that he's signed onto something much more sinister than a botched heist. As he searches for the truth that will clear Katia's name, he finds himself on a path that takes him from Southern California to Costa Rica, and, ultimately, to a secret buried since Castro's rise to power.

Together with his partner, Harry Hinds, Madriani must piece together the threads of a decades-old conspiracy involving priceless gold coins, an aging American spy, a disaffected Russian soldier, and a forgotten weapon from the days of JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis. As the separate strands of the story come together, Madriani finds information that will ultimately lead him to the one person who holds the key to it all: a man some call "The Guardian of Lies."

In this fascinating thriller from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini, Paul Madriani faces his most challenging – and most urgent – case yet, a breathless story that combines fact and fiction and will hold readers captive until its final, explosive conclusion.

Человек, зовущий себя Фэлконом, захватил заложников, заперся с ними в номере мотеля и выдвинул невероятные условия: во-первых, он требует, чтобы с его счета на Багамах сняли двести тысяч долларов; во-вторых, хочет без свидетелей поговорить с дочерью мэра Алисией.

Откуда у нищего бродяги счет в банке?

Что может связывать его с дочерью самого влиятельного человека в городе? Полиция уверена — Фэлкон просто сошел с ума.

Однако адвокат Джеймс Свайтек, которого хранители закона привлекли к участию в переговорах, уверен: Фэлкон вовсе не безумен.

Он настаивает на приостановке операции спецназа по ликвидации преступника — и начинает собственное расследование.

Выводы, к которым приходит опытный юрист, устанавливая обстоятельства жизни Фэлкона, шокируют даже его…

October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son — a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Pete’s only statement about it — to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family — was: “I have nothing to say.” He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave. In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete’s defense attorney tries desperately to save him. Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham’s signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers on every page.

Unbeknownst to her identical twin Bennie Rosato, Alice Connelly is on the run from her drug-dealing confederates who are trying to kill her. Alice sees only one way out – to become Bennie. She slips a drug into her drink, and usurps her life. Not only does she sleep with her boyfriend, impersonate her at work – and steal her money, but she also warns the police that her evil twin is out to get her. Her plan works perfectly, because when Bennie emerges to fight back, everyone thinks she's Alice – including the police. Meanwhile, Mary DiNunzio, distracted by personal problems is also duped by Alice. The happy DiNunzio home is disrupted by the arrival of a sexy and mysterious cousin who claims to be a witch – and manages to put Mary's father under her spell! Bennie, with everything at stake, is fighting for her life – on all levels. She's reached breaking point. But when the chips are finally down, what will she do? Is blood thicker than water, and can an ordinary, law-abiding woman be driven to evil?

New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin returns to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., with an exciting thriller about a ghost ship and the President's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sarah Woodruff, on death row in Oregon for murdering her lover, John Finley, has appealed her case to the Supreme Court just when a prominent justice resigns, leaving a vacancy.

Then, for no apparent reason, another justice is mysteriously attacked. Dana Cutler – one of the heroes from Margolin's bestselling Executive Privilege – is quietly called in to investigate. She looks for links between the Woodruff appeal and the ominous incidents in the justices' chambers, which eventually lead her to a shoot-out that took place years ago on a small freighter docked upriver in Shelby, Oregon, containing a dead crew and illegal drugs. The only survivor on board? John Finley.

With the help of Brad Miller and Keith Evans, Dana uncovers a plot by a rogue element in the American intelligence community involving the president's nominee to the Supreme Court, and soon the trio is thrown back into the grips of a deadly, executive danger.

With nonstop action, Supreme Justice picks up where Executive Privilege left off, putting readers right back where they were – on the edge of their seats.

The Supreme Court is one of our most sacred – and secretive – public institutions. But sometimes secrets can lead to cover-ups with very deadly consequences.

Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar and provocateur who craves headline-making celebrity, but with his latest book he may have gone too far. In it he resurrects forgotten language in the U.S. Constitution – and hints at a missing letter of Thomas Jefferson's – that threatens to divide the nation.

Then, during a publicity tour, Scarborough is brutally murdered in a San Diego hotel room, and a young man with dark connections is charged. What looks like an open-and-shut case to most people doesn't to defense attorney Paul Madriani. He believes that there is much more to the case and that the defendant is a pawn caught in the middle, being scapegoated by circumstance.

As the trial spirals toward its conclusion, Madriani and his partner, Harry Hinds, race to find the missing Jefferson letter – and the secrets it holds about slavery and scandal at the time of our nation's founding and the very reason Scarborough was killed. Madriani's chase takes him from the tension-filled courtroom in California to the trail of a high court justice now suddenly in hiding and lays bare the soaring political stakes for a seat on the highest court, in a country divided, and under the shadow of power.

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."

В основе сюжета этого увлекательного триллера — судьба журналистки Марии Карелли, ставшей жертвой шантажа. Защищаясь, она убивает шантажиста. Полиция арестовывает Марию, она должна предстать перед судом. С помощью адвоката Пэйджита ей удается пройти через все тяжкие испытания.

След като Тоня Хейли, малко невинно черно момиченце е брутално изнасилено и убито от двама пияни расисти, нейният баща убива двамата насилници и бива съден. Следва голям и шумен съдебен процес, който държи цялата страна в напрежение, докато в съдебната зала се намесват най-различни интереси…

Млад адвокат-идеалист успява да осъди голяма застрахователна компания, отказваща да плати обезщетения на страдащи от левкемия.

Една истинска история

Една фатална съдебна грешка

Един съсипан човешки живот

„Невинният“ е първата документална книга на Джон Гришам. В нея той проследява трагичната съдба на бейзболиста Рон Уилямсън, осъден на смърт заради жестоко престъпление, което не е извършил.

През 1971 г. Рон Уилямсън става първият спортист от щата Оклахома, който е избран да играе във Висшата бейзболна лига. След като подписва договор с „Оукланд Атлетикс“, той напуска родния си град Ейда, мечтаейки за блестяща бейзболна кариера. Неговата мечта за спортна слава обаче не се сбъдва и шест години по-късно той прекратява кариерата си заради травма. Рон се завръща в родния си град, където животът му претърпява рязък обрат — бейзболистът започва да злоупотребява с алкохол и наркотици, остава безработен и изпада в депресия.

През 1982 г. в Ейда е изнасилена и убита 21-годишната сервитьорка Дебра Картър. В продължение на пет години полицията не може да открие извършителя. Поради неизяснени причини един от основните заподозрени за убийството е Рон Уилямсън. През 1987 г. той е арестуван и осъден на смърт въз основа на неверни показания и без наличието на веществени доказателства. Само пет дни преди леталната инжекция и след 12 години затвор през 1999 г. Уилямсън е оневинен. Но животът му е съсипан. Той умира през 2004 г. Прочитайки неговия некролог във вестника, Гришам решава да направи собствено разследване по случая и да открие причините, довели до фаталната съдебна грешка и унищожаването на един човешки живот. Според автора „въображението не е достатъчно, за да роди толкова невероятна история“.

Ако вярвате, че всеки е невинен до доказване на противното, тази книга ще ви шокира. Ако вярвате, че смъртно наказание трябва да има, тази книга ще ви накара да се замислите. Ако вярвате в справедливостта на съдебната система, тази книга ще ви разгневи.

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Действието се развива в окръг Форд, Мисисипи, където ексцентрични герои се сблъскват с тъмни семейни тайни.

Рей Атли, 43-годишен, наскоро разведен, преподавател по право и любител пилот, получава писмо от своя умиращ баща, съдия в Луизиана. Същото писмо получава и по-малкия му брат Форест, черната овца в семейството. Двамата братя трябва да се явят в кабинета на съдията в уречен ден и час, за да обсъдят наследството, което ги очаква.

Когато Рей пристига в родния дом, съдията е вече мъртъв. Но в шкафа в кабинета на стария Атли той намира пари, които баща му не би могъл да спечели от съдийство.

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