<div>First in the New York Times&ndash;bestselling series: Two district attorneys go up against a brilliant killer in this &ldquo;exceptionally good&rdquo; legal thriller (Publishers Weekly). The plan was simple: When the manager carries the bags of money out of the supermarket, Mandeville Louis will be waiting with a shotgun. He&rsquo;ll kill the manager, kill the guard, and cruise away. But when Louis&rsquo;s driver shows up late, he&rsquo;s forced to improvise&mdash;and the result is a disaster. He storms a liquor store, killing two and leaving a trail the cops have no trouble following. But even behind bars, Mandeville Louis won&rsquo;t go down without a fight. An expert in legal procedure, Louis has never met a loophole too small to shimmy through. He&rsquo;s going to bob and weave his way into a plea bargain and back onto the streets&mdash;unless Butch Karp can stop him. A firebrand assistant district attorney who&rsquo;s just been assigned to Homicide, he wants to make an example of Louis. With the help of the brilliant Marlene Ciampi, Karp intends to break Mandeville Louis&mdash;and strike a blow for justice. Written by a legendary prosecuting attorney, No Lesser Plea is a perfect introduction to this saga of life in gritty 1970s New York. No Lesser Plea is the 1st book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. &ldquo;Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi are the most interesting pair of characters in the suspense genre today.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;An attorney himself, Tanenbaum has infused this book with a strong collection of characters, a raunchy energy that crackles in the out-of-office lawyer talk and a basic sense of outrage at a system that is failing miserably.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

No Lesser Plea

<div>A prosecutor defies the FBI, CIA, and Mafia to bring terrorists to justice in this thriller from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Justice Denied. After hijacking a flight to Milwaukee, a group of Croatian terrorists inform the FBI of bombs they&rsquo;ve planted across the country. If their demands are not met, the bombs will explode. The plan goes perfectly until one of the weapons goes off in the Bronx, killing a police officer&mdash;in assistant district attorney Butch Karp&rsquo;s jurisdiction. Prosecuting a few terrorist cop killers should be a slam-dunk, but Karp and his assistant, Marlene Ciampi, are getting resistance from unexpected quarters&mdash;including the NYPD itself. The Archdiocese of New York hires a top lawyer to defend the accused. And when the FBI, CIA, and Miami Mafia team up to undermine the case, it&rsquo;s clear these Croatians are no ordinary terrorists. As Karp and Ciampi uncover powerful ties, and secrets that reach from anticommunist Cuba to Nazi war crimes, they realize their fight for justice has become a fight for their lives. From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author and former Manhattan assistant district attorney, Depraved Indifference is an insider&rsquo;s &ldquo;damning indictment of our court system and an entertaining expos&eacute; of the DA&#39;s office&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert K. Tanenbaum including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Depraved Indifference

<div>From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling master with over one million copies in print: Prosecutor Butch Karp hunts a psychopath targeting the innocent. He is the Bogeyman: a remorseless monster stalking the streets of New York in search of fresh victims&mdash;his chosen prey being children. The killings are ghastly enough to shock lawyer Butch Karp, who thought he&rsquo;d already seen the absolute worst of humanity in his work. So when a child abuse case and a homicide case seem to be connected, Karp and his colleague Marlene Ciampi find themselves delving into the darkest corners of New York&rsquo;s underworld. Their chosen prey? A cold-blooded predator whose twisted work has only just begun&mdash;and whose true motives will force Karp to decide how far he is truly willing to go to stop the horror. Known to his fans as &ldquo;one hell of a writer,&rdquo; (New York Post) Robert K. Tanenbaum lends truthful, gritty authenticity to his legal thrillers as one of the most successful prosecuting attorneys in America, having convicted hundreds of violent criminals. This is one of the most intense and haunting of the popular series that includes Infamy, Tragic, and No Lesser Plea. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert K. Tanenbaum including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Immoral Certainty

<div>Book Four of the bestselling Butch Karp legal thriller series: Karp, Marlene, and a few honest cops must stand up to a hive of corrupt politicians Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp is finally recognized for his heroic service to New York City when a group of politicians back him for the top job as Manhattan&rsquo;s district attorney. But a series of cases involving vigilante murders begins to reveal the true motives of those civil servants standing by his side. It&rsquo;s Karp versus the dirty city in one of Tanenbaum&rsquo;s most revealing and caustic legal thrillers&mdash; a stunning indictment of civil corruption and overreach. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert K. Tanenbaum including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Reversible Error

<div>In this &ldquo;wild, exhilarating ride&rdquo; from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author, a prosecutor goes undercover&mdash;on the court&mdash;after a basketball player&rsquo;s murder (Chicago Tribune). Marion Simmons is big. He&rsquo;s tough. And he takes a long time to die. Simmons survives the long ride through Queens, clinging to life until the car stops in an abandoned lot, and a hit man puts two bullets in his head. When the police arrive, they recognize the dead man instantly. Simmons is the most famous basketball player in New York City, and his murder&mdash;along with the fortune of cocaine found in the car&mdash;will turn the sport upside down. When he was in college, Butch Karp dreamed of playing professional basketball. Instead, he became the toughest prosecutor in the District Attorney&rsquo;s office. To get to the truth of Simmons&rsquo; murder, Karp goes undercover as a player&mdash;putting his life on the line to cleanse the sport of drug dealing, point shaving, and murder for hire. From the former Manhattan assistant DA and bestselling author of Justice Denied, Material Witness is a standout legal thriller in the long-running Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series. Material Witness is the 5th book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. &ldquo;A winner . . . a master of the crime grime of Manhattan . . . for those who have stalked the criminal courts there&rsquo;s tremendous authenticity.&rdquo; &mdash;F. Lee Baily &ldquo;Extraordinary . . . sexy dialogue, rousing action, pungent observation on the New York criminal justice system.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune</div>

Material Witness

<div>Manhattan&rsquo;s homicide bureau chief investigates a murder at the UN in the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s &ldquo;most powerful thriller yet&rdquo; (Vincent Bugliosi). While on his way to the UN, a Turkish diplomat is gunned down in the street. All signs point to an ancient blood feud, and the NYPD quickly tracks down their lead suspect: an Armenian nationalist they believe was out to avenge the Armenian genocide. He fits their suspect profile perfectly&mdash;so perfectly, in fact, that Chief Butch Karp is beginning to doubt the story. With the help of his crime-fighting wife Marlene Ciampi, Karp digs into the diplomat&rsquo;s death, uncovering a deadly web of corruption far more sinister than even he could have imagined. Written by legendary prosecutor and New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum, Justice Denied exposes the kind of dirty dealing that goes on in the shadow of the UN. Justice Denied is the 6th book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. &ldquo;Tanenbaum&rsquo;s experience as a New York City assistant district attorney serves him well in this gritty tale of intrigue.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;Scrupulously realistic.&rdquo; &mdash;Joseph Wambaugh, author of The Onion Field &ldquo;A highly satisfying tale.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal</div>

Justice Denied

<div>A prosecutor goes after the truth about JFK&rsquo;s assassination in a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s &ldquo;most enthralling legal thriller to date&rdquo; (Vincent Bugliosi). In a forgotten corner of the Georgetown library, New York prosecutor Butch Karp is about to commit a felony. He cracks the seal on a government file, in which he finds papers, a ledger, a reel of film, and a small jar that holds a chunk of human flesh. Just by looking at this material, he has broken the law. It&rsquo;s the evidence he needs to prove the true identity of the man who killed Kennedy, and now that he has it, Karp is the most dangerous man in America. Brought to Washington to assist in the Congressional investigation into Kennedy&rsquo;s death, Karp was expected to toe the line. As his personal inquiries lead him into a web that stretches from the capos of the mafia to the halls of the Kremlin, this hard-driving attorney realizes the conspiracy that killed Kennedy is still alive&mdash;and out for blood. As deputy chief counsel to the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations, Robert K. Tanenbaum has an insider&rsquo;s understanding of one of the darkest days in American history. Corruption of Blood is a novel inspired by real events by an author who &ldquo;knows his criminal procedure cold&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert K. Tanenbaum including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Corruption of Blood

<div>In this &ldquo;electrifying page-turner&rdquo; from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author, a former NYC assistant DA goes up against the mayor&mdash;and a web of corruption (Kirkus Reviews). New York&rsquo;s chief medical examiner, Murray Selig is one of the best in the country. So it&rsquo;s quite a shock when the mayor fires him without cause. Humiliated, Selig wants more than justice. He wants revenge&mdash;so he calls Butch Karp. Once the city&rsquo;s leading prosecutor, Karp left the District Attorney&rsquo;s office to go into private practice, but he still knows his way around the halls of power. Selig&rsquo;s case gives him a chance to stick it to his old boss, but as he digs into the truth of the medical examiner&rsquo;s firing, he finds the heart of the city is more rotten than he ever realized. Meanwhile, Karp&rsquo;s wife Marlene has opened a detective agency dedicated to protecting women. Her latest case leads her to a Lower East Side women&rsquo;s shelter . . . and a shocking connection to Karp&rsquo;s case. Based on the author&rsquo;s own experience as a New York prosecutor, Falsely Accused is a sizzling expose of the true nature of power by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Infamy and Material Witness. Falsely Accused is the 8th book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. &ldquo;Plenty of suspense . . . Tanenbaum is in top form.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;Taut and authentic . . . Readers will be enthralled.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Daily Journal &ldquo;Ex-New York DA Tanenbaum&rsquo;s gritty thrillers take full advantage of his own experience in the judicial system. . . . Tanenbaum knows his criminal procedure cold.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Falsely Accused

<div>A racially charged murder pits the NY assistant DA against a flashy defense lawyer in an &ldquo;irresistible&rdquo; legal thriller by the bestselling author of Infamy (Publishers Weekly). It&rsquo;s the early &rsquo;80s, and New York City is eating itself alive. The murder rate is skyrocketing, and Butch Karp, the battle-tested assistant district attorney in charge of the NYPD&rsquo;s homicide bureau, is the only thing standing between the city and chaos. And he&rsquo;s about to get pushed to the breaking point. As the bureau chief, Karp is not supposed to try cases himself, but he&rsquo;s about to make an exception. A wealthy suburbanite is accused of a series of murders in Harlem, and the case&rsquo;s racial implications threaten to set the city ablaze. Promising to get a conviction, Karp puts his reputation and his career on the line. His opponent is the country&rsquo;s most famous defense attorney, a notorious showman determined to use every trick in the book to get his client free, and destroy Butch Karp in the process. Before he became the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of such legal thrillers as No Lesser Plea and Falsely Accused, Robert K. Tanenbaum was one of the most successful trial attorneys in New York City. Irresistible Impulse displays the grit, brains and brio that made him so successful. Irresistible Impulse is the 9th book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. &ldquo;Tannenbaum&rsquo;s snappy, electric ninth novel to feature the latter-day Hepburn and Tracy . . . the suspense here is Hitchcockian.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Gripping.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Irresistible Impulse

<div>In this legal thriller with &ldquo;bedrock authenticity&rdquo; by a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author, a Manhattan prosecutor risks his life to catch a serial killer (Kirkus Reviews). A veteran assistant district attorney, Butch Karp knows that sometimes a prosecutor has to make a deal. The Manhattan courts are backed up worse than Midtown at rush hour, and that means plea bargains. Burglary gets knocked down to trespass, attempted homicide down to simple assault, but Karp has one ironclad rule: In his office, nobody gets away with murder. That rule is about to get put to the test. All over Manhattan, the city&rsquo;s drug kingpins are getting shot in the head and dumped in the streets. Is it a turf war, or has someone in the NYPD turned vigilante? When a cop asks Karp to help kill the investigation, Karp is forced to make an impossible choice between his principles and the city he loves. Based on the personal experience of legendary prosecutor Robert K. Tanenbaum, Reversible Error takes readers on a tour of the grittiest corners of 1970&rsquo;s New York. &ldquo;You can smell the Big Apple starting to rot,&rdquo; writes Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;as Tanenbaum bores into its mealy core for another uncommonly intelligent legal/cop entertainment.&rdquo; Reversible Error is the 4th book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. &ldquo;Reversible Error blends dirty politics, women&rsquo;s rights, sadism, murder, and betrayal with skill and style.&rdquo; &mdash;Orlando Sentinel &ldquo;Sizzles and explodes. . . . A gut-wrencher that takes Tanenbaum to the summit.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi are the most interesting pair of characters in the suspense genre today.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune</div>

Reckless Endangerment

<div>From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author and the &ldquo;Joseph Wambaugh of the judicial system,&rdquo; comes the first three legal thrillers in the long-running series (San Diego Tribune). A successful trial lawyer and &ldquo;one hell of a writer,&rdquo; Robert Tanenbaum crafts his legal thrillers with authenticity and breath-taking suspense. In these first three books of the series, he introduces Manhattan assistant district attorney Roger &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Karp, who struggles to remain true to himself in an often corrupt judicial system. But with the help of assistant DA Marlene Ciampi, he fights the good fight with energy, wit, and a passion for the truth (New York Post). No Lesser Plea: A brutal murderer hopes feigning insanity will keep him out of the courtroom. But Butch and Marlene aren&rsquo;t about to let him get away with it. &ldquo;A page-turner.&rdquo; &mdash;San Diego Tribune Depraved Indifference: Butch is ready to prosecute a group of Croatian terrorists in what should be a slam-dunk case, but everyone from the FBI to the CIA&mdash;and even the Catholic Church&mdash;is prepared to stop him. &ldquo;A novel full of whirlwind action . . . Very good.&rdquo; &mdash;New York Times Book Review Immoral Certainty: A remorseless monster is stalking the city&rsquo;s children, forcing Butch and Marlene to descend into the darkest corners of New York&rsquo;s underworld where a benign face can hide an evil soul. &ldquo;Intricate plotting . . . A rousing finale . . . Frightening.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times Book Review</div>

The Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Novels Volume One

<div>From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: An account of the murder case and coerced confession that led to the birth of Miranda rights&mdash;&ldquo;Unfailingly riveting&rdquo; (Vincent Bugliosi). It was a muggy summer day in 1963 when Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert were murdered in their apartment on New York City&rsquo;s Upper East Side. Months passed before police arrested George Whitmore Jr., and he confessed to the crime. But his incarceration would entail a host of shocking law enforcement missteps and cover-ups. In this insider account, attorney and New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum delivers a page-turning, real-life thriller about this historic case&mdash;from the brutal crime to the wrenching conviction, which forever reformed the American justice system. Echoes of My Soul chronicles both the infamous &ldquo;Career Girls Murders&rdquo; and the aftermath that ultimately led to the Supreme Court&rsquo;s Miranda decision, as well as the abolition of the death penalty in New York State. This is &ldquo;the most powerful story of American justice in our time&rdquo;&mdash;a true account of two brutal murders, the innocent man convicted of the crime, and the young DA who refused to give up until justice was served (Linda Fairstein). &ldquo;Thrilling and insightful.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Many of the elements of the narrative are inherently fascinating: the circumstances of the crimes in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the police investigations, the prosecutors&rsquo; deliberations and the courtroom dramatics . . . A nonfiction murder mystery, an intriguing saga.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Echoes of My Soul

<div>Three pulse-pounding thrillers in the long-running series from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author and &ldquo;Joseph Wambaugh of the judicial system&rdquo; (San Diego Tribune). A successful trial lawyer and &ldquo;one hell of a writer,&rdquo; Robert K. Tanenbaum crafts his legal thrillers with authenticity and breath-taking suspense. Here are three books in his series featuring Manhattan assistant district attorney Roger &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Karp, who struggles against an often-corrupt judicial system. But with the help of Marlene Ciampi, he fights the good fight with energy, wit, and a passion for the truth (New York Post). Reversible Error: When a group of politicians back his bid for Manhattan&rsquo;s district attorney, Butch soon realizes that his benefactors have their own sinister motives . . . &ldquo;Sizzles and explodes . . . a gut-wrencher that takes Tanenbaum to the summit!&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist Material Witness: When a star basketball player is found murdered with a huge stash of cocaine, Butch must go undercover to stop a conspiracy of drugs, gambling, and murder . . . &ldquo;[A] witty, highly intricate big-city police thriller.&rdquo; &mdash;USA Today Justice Denied: After a Turkish diplomat is gunned down in the street, Butch and Marlene are caught in a deadly web of corruption more sinister than even he could have imagined . . . &ldquo;[A] gritty tale of intrigue.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune</div>

The Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Novels Volume Two

<div>Four razor-sharp thrillers in the long-running series from a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&mdash;and &ldquo;one hell of a writer&rdquo; (New York Post). Proclaimed the &ldquo;Joseph Wambaugh of the judicial system&rdquo; by the San Diego Tribune, trial lawyer Robert K. Tanenbaum crafts his legal thrillers with authenticity and breath-taking suspense. In these four entries in the series, Manhattan assistant district attorney Roger &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Karp and Marlene Ciampi fight the good fight against crime and an often-corrupt judicial system with energy, wit, and a passion for the truth (New York Post). Corruption of Blood: Butch has just found evidence that could prove who really killed JFK, and he&rsquo;s about to find out that the conspiracy behind the assassination is still alive&mdash;and still deadly . . . &ldquo;[His] most enthralling legal thriller to date.&rdquo; &mdash;Vincent Bugliosi Falsely Accused: When New York&rsquo;s chief medical examiner is wrongly fired, he goes to Karp for justice&mdash;only for Butch to discover corruption far deadlier than he&rsquo;s ever seen . . . &ldquo;[An] &ldquo;electrifying page-turner.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews Irresistible Impulse: A racially charged murder pits Butch against a flashy defense lawyer in a case so divisive it could drive the city to tear itself apart . . . &ldquo;The suspense here is Hitchcockian.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly Reckless Endangerment: Drug kingpins are being murdered all over Manhattan, and Butch must help the police find a vigilante who has more in mind than justice . . . &ldquo;A three-ring circus of mayhem and mystery.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly </div>

Robert K. Tanenbaum

Books By Robert K. Tanenbaum (14 Books)

No Lesser Plea

Depraved Indifference

Immoral Certainty

Reversible Error

Material Witness

Justice Denied

Corruption of Blood

Falsely Accused

Irresistible Impulse

Reckless Endangerment

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Echoes of My Soul

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