The Manhattan DA, Butch Karp, has foiled psychopath Andrew Kane's bid to become the mayor of New York City; Kane, the former head of a law firm, awaits trial for murder at the Tombs. When Kane's attorneys seek their own psychiatric evaluation, they arrange for the high-risk prisoner to be examined at a private hospital upstate. Few readers will be surprised when the convoy is waylaid, allowing the criminal mastermind to escape and plot a bigger crime....

Butch Karp is New York City's toughest Assistant DA. And he's facing his dirtiest job yet, the prosecution of a group of Croatian nationalists responsible for the terrorist killing of a New York cop.

The newly appointed chief of the New York District Attorney's homicide bureau investigates the assassination of a United Nations diplomat.

They were just doing their jobs - serving and protecting - when the unimaginable happened: Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini became moving targets, ambushed from behind at a Manhattan housing project.

Former Assistant D.A. Butch Karp and his wife Marlene Ciampi find themselves embroiled in a case that involves government officials, law enforcement agents, and corporate "suits" in New York City.

New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp faces one of his most challenging and dramatic cases when his wife Marlene Ciampi learns that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder. Approached by the mother of the accused, Marlene risks her life to prove his confession was false. Now Karp, who has dedicated his efforts as DA to the "institutionalization of virtue," must not only admit that his system of checks and balances failed, he must...