Steve Martini - Prime Witness
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A legal thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Paul Madriani series.
It started with a series of bizarre double murders. It led to the arrest of one prime suspect. And it sparked the most explosive trial in a lawyers career.
Paul Madriani knows that the man hes persecuting is guilty. But one disturbing fact could destroy the case . . . He may not be the only killer.
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From Publishers WeeklyThe ugly marketplace of justice--as one character terms the judicial process--is scrutinized with a riveting, you-are-there immediacy in the new legal procedural by the author of Compelling Evidence. When attorney Paul Madriani offers to assist a friend--the countys ailing district attorney, who subsequently dies--in investigating six brutal killings, he becomes entangled in a series of machinations that threaten his career and even his private life. Though Martinis plotting proves ingenious (the story is capped off by a nail-biting encounter in a darkened courtroom), the legal maneuvers themselves take center stage here. From the crime scene--the banks of Californias Putah Creek--to a deceptively simple arrest to fascinating pre-trial scheming, Martini packs his novel with the quotidian details of the wheels of justice--and the numerous cogs therein. Madrianis first-person, present-tense narration invigorates the often intricate proceedings with first-rate wisecracks and one-liners. His character descriptions are by turns pithy and funny (frequently both): the prosecuting attorney looks like nothing so much as Robert Duvalls incarnation of the Great Santini; the countys female victim-witness coordinator is the crime victims answer to Don Corleone in drag . . . known as Attila the Hen. Prime is indeed the word for this involving read.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
YA-When Paul Madriani agrees to fill in temporarily as Special County Prosecutor, he has no idea that he will become involved in a serial murder case. The search for the Putah Creek Killer leads to the arrest of a college security guard, Andre Iganovich. Adrian Chambers, the defense counsel, has a shady professional past and a deep-seated dislike for Madriani, who was instrumental in the attorneys previous suspension from the bar association. As the evidence unfolds, discrepancies between the first two double murders and the third one become apparent, leading the prosecution to believe that a copy-cat murderer is on the loose. Threats against Madrianis family, legal posturing, the identification of a witness to the third set of murders, and a killers desperation combine to produce a thrilling story.
Grace Baun, R.E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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T HE N OVELS OF
STEVE MARTINI
THE LIST
ABSOLUTELY IRRESISTIBLE... [A] wild and wooly tale.
Kirkus Reviews
INTRIGUING ANTAGONISTS: the man of action versus the woman of thought. Their dueling turns The List into a fast, and often funny, offering.
Chicago Tribune
GREAT GOOD FUN... the final paragraph is worth the price of admission.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
THE PLOT BARRELS RIGHT ALONG. Abby is a strong and sympathetic character, and the climax is nicely twisty. Along the way, Martini gets in some sharp asides on the nature of fame.
The Seattle Times
AN EXCITING, SURPRISING ENDING... Martini deftly conceals the killer until the last flaming finale.
Booklist
SWIFT PACING AND MULTIPLE PLOT TWISTS.
People
THE JUDGE
RIVETING... a suspenseful tale, right up to the satisfying climax... legal thrillers dont get much better than this.
Publishers Weekly
A COMMANDING VOICE... the author answers just about every question youve ever had about the games lawyers play.
The New York Times Book Review
MARTINI, a former trial attorney, is fascinating on legal strategy.
People
UNDUE INFLUENCE
THE COURTROOM NOVEL OF THE YEAR... virtually nonstop courtroom pyrotechnics... a dazzling climax.
Kirkus Reviews
A COMPLEX, RIVETING TALE and nitty-gritty courtroom drama.
Entertainment Weekly
THE ACTION BUILDS TO A ROUSING CLIMAX through a brilliant series of trial scenes with several surprises.
Publishers Weekly
FILLED WITH SURPRISES AND TWISTS... supremely readable.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
FANS OF COURTROOM DRAMA will love Martinis protagonist... and this complex tale of intrigue and murder.
USA Today
COMPELLING EVIDENCE
SUPERB... truly on a level with Presumed Innocent.
F. Lee Bailey
PACKS A WALLOP!
Publishers Weekly
BY FAR THE BEST of the genre that Ive ever seen... Absolutely thrilling.
Clifford Irving
ALL THAT COURTROOM DRAMA SHOULD BE... seamless, suspenseful.
New York Daily News
ENGROSSING!
Entertainment Weekly
ONE OF THE BEST COURTROOM DRAMAS this reviewer has seen in years.
The Sacramento Bee
PRIME WITNESS
RIVETING, YOU-ARE-THERE IMMEDIACY... ingenious... nail-biting... fascinating... first-rate... Prime is indeed the word for this involving read!
Publishers Weekly
THE TRIAL BEGINS and Martini rolls up his sleeves to do what he does best... packs a satisfying punch.
Kirkus Reviews
THE SIMEON CHAMBER
CHILLING... PROVOCATIVE... STUNNING.
Publishers Weekly
A FINE FOOT-TO-THE-FLOOR THRILLER!
New York Daily News
INTRIGUING TWISTS AND TURNS.
The Orlando Sentinel
THRILLING... a winner... Martini demonstrates a confident and deft control of literary suspense... excellent, top-quality adventure.
The Sacramento Bee
Titles by Steve Martini
DOUBLE TAP
THE ARRAIGNMENT
THE JURY
THE ATTORNEY
CRITICAL MASS
THE LIST
THE JUDGE
UNDUE INFLUENCE
PRIME WITNESS
COMPELLING EVIDENCE
THE SIMEON CHAMBER
PRIME WITNESS
STEVEMARTINI
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
PRIME WITNESS
A Jove Book / published by arrangement with the author
PRINTING HISTORY
G. P. Putnams Sons hardcover edition / July 1993
Jove mass-market edition / February 1994
Copyright 1993 by SPM, Inc.
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To the mothers, Rita and Betty, for their interest, care and love
Prologue
They are the birds of darkness and noiseless flight, fierce and savage. On the dead fly the great horned owl can pick the eye from your head in the pitch black of a moonless night. On more than one occasion they are known to have attacked man.
It will take only three more nights to finish the job for which hes been paid nearly a years salary. Though the risks are high, it is the easiest money hes ever made.
As in the previous four nights he parks his car in the trees a half mile down the road. He takes Harvey from his cage, loosens the leather traces and removes the hood from the birds massive beaked head. He holds his arm straight, gloved fist elevated a bit, and sweeps it forward, the signal for the bird to take to the air. In a fluid motion a broad canopy of feathers opens overhead and the massive bird lifts skyward. It is a vision of flight, an analogy of animation perfect in its silence. He watches as Harvey disappears into the shadows of the trees and the half-moon-lit sky above.
Named for the six-foot fictional rabbit in a vintage Jimmy Stewart movie, Harvey is sheer stealth, six pounds of streaking death on the wing.
He listens, and after a few seconds, hears the telltale ruffle of folded wings, the only sound of flight Harvey ever makes. It is the sign that the bird has landed, ninety feet above, in the massive madrone on the makeshift perch. This place, high in the trees, will give the bird a better angle of attack.
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