Raper, Volume 2, Lankler Roderick C.

Автор: Lankler Roderick C.
Название: Fixer
ISBN: 1098312597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098312596
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Цена: 16550.00 T
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Описание: This novel takes place in Manhattan. The protagonist is Ian MacDonald, a senior trial Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office. Ian is prosecuting a mobster's son for the brutal rape and murder of a young woman, Mary Rusk. Mary is abducted as she is walking to the Staten Island Ferry after working late at her job. The trial ends with a hung jury because one of the jurors has been bought. The juror has agreed to vote not guilty in return for a large sum of money. The fixer is Barry Bradford, a former assistant district attorney who has gone into the business of fixing juries. If the jury system is to survive, Bradford must be stopped.
There are three other story lines in the novel:
1. The District Attorney's Office receives a letter from an inmate/patient of a hospital for the criminally insane. The inmate claims that he wants to confess to a felony murder he committed with an accomplice. If he is telling the truth, there is a killer walking the streets. He must be found and evidence, other than the word of an insane man, must be developed in the seven year old case.
2. An interim District Attorney appointed by the governor is a disaster. He pursues his only goal, to get elected, at the cost of his office's investigations. Ian's mentor is eventually persuaded to consider the job.
3. Ian falls in love with Adele Rusk, Mary's sister and a brilliant intern at New York Presbyterian Hospital. This love affair has to be carried on surreptitiously lest the case be taken away from Ian to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
Barry Bradford is planning to fix a juror selected for the re-trail. Ian and the police i eventually gather enough probable cause to install eavesdropping devices. The installers are almost caught. One of the undercover officers is shot.
Bradford identifies a selected juror in the second trial whom, he is sure, will take a bribe

Автор: Lankler Roderick C.
Название: Gamer
ISBN: 1667825054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667825052
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: A serial killer wants to be the best. He turns a yellow cab into a killing machine and writes a letter to the leading sports writer in NYC telling him he is going to kill one person a week. This will send the City into a panic. He picks, as his victims prominent New Yorkers, his former classmates from prep school and some random elderly people. Ian MacDonald, a seasoned Assistant District Attorney in the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorneys Office works with the NYPD to try and stop the killings.

Автор: Lankler Roderick C.
Название: Fixer
ISBN: 1098304748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098304744
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Цена: 34030.00 T
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Описание: Ian MacDonald is a senior trial assistant district attorney in the Homicide Bureau of the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorneys Office. He has been assigned a major murder trial of a mobster's son accused of abducting, raping, and strangling to death a young lady who was working as a bank intern in one of the nations largest banks headquartered in lower manhattan. Having worked late one night to finish up monthly reports she was walking to the Staten Island ferry when abducted. Her body was dumped in the middle of a vacant street in lower manhattan. After a two week trial, the case was submitted to the jury and it was soon apparent that one of the jurors would not deliberate with the others. He insisted in voting against a conviction and he refused to discuss his decision with his fellow jurors. Ultimately the trial judge had to declare a mistrial. An initial investigation discloses that the juror was paid to vote not guilty by a lawyer, whose business is to guarantee clients that there will not be a conviction because he is able to fix a juror.
If the constitutional right of trial by jury is to be preserved, Ian must find out who did this, make an arrest and assure that it doesn't happen again during the retrial of this case, or, for that matter, in any other case.
Ian's efforts are thwarted by at least four factors:
- His boss is an interim DA, appointed by governor, after the elected District Attorney dies while in office. He is a mistake. His only goal is to get himself elected. He politicizes the office and jeopardizes investigations, including Ian's by interfering and having damaging press conferences. The governor has to remedy that problem.
- During trial preparation, Ian is referred a letter form an inmate/patient of a hospital for the criminally insane who believes that, if he admits to a murder he helped commit seven years ago, he may get well. Ian finds the cold case. There are only two problems: the perpetrator is insane, and, it is clear that he had an accomplice who was never arrested and is out roaming the streets, possibly killing others.
- Ian has fallen in love with Adele, the sister of the deceased bank intern, who is a brilliant resident at a major New York Hospital. He should probably not be the trial assistant for the retrial but he is convinced of the defendant's guilt, and wants to convict him. Ian and Adele agree to try to keep their relationship a secret and to hope no one learns of it.
-the father of the deceased intern has a gun, and will kill the defendant if Ian does not convict him