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"Tanenbaum is the master of the legal thriller, the best in America. And Betrayed is the best of them all. His years as a top notch lawyer and the head of homicide prosecution in N.Y. under the legendary DA Frank Hogan, are apparent. He has learned all the right lessons about ethics, accuracy and drama. I have been a trial lawyer and the reader of the genre for sixty years. I have never come across any lawyer-author who got all of the concepts and the law and procedure right, until now. Read the book, but here is a warning -- you will not be able to think about anything else when you begin until you get to the last page. You will be entertained, excited, riveted and anxiously curious about what the next unsuspected revelation will bring and almost prepared to try your first case."
--Mark Lane, New York Times #1 bestselling author
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From the dark fantasies of a sexual underworld to the darkest realities of a terrorist conspirator, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum draws District Attorney Butch Karp deep into a combustible courtroom game of politics, power, lies, and murder.Awaiting trial in the Tombs, Manhattan’s infamous criminal detention complex, is Sharif Jabbar, the demagogic founder of a Harlem mosque. Charges against his terrorist attack on the city were dismissed once, and now that the Islam convert is being held on new allegations, New York District Attorney Roger “Butch” Karp is determined to bring him down. He faces formidable competition. Attorney Megan O’Dowd, a radical activist enthralled with revolutionary rhetoric, is going to the mat with the uncompromising conviction that Jabbar is being railroaded by the NYPD.Outside the criminal courts, Karp’s wife, Marlene Ciampi, is pursuing her own investigation. Allegations against indigent Manhattan street vendor Dirty Warren in the murder of society beauty Michelle Oakley don’t sit right with Marlene. Unfortunately her sole ally is religious vigilante David Grale, the charismatic but deranged leader of the Mole People. What Grale knows about city corruption snakes as far and wide as the dank honeycomb of the sewers and tunnels his destitute army calls home.Then Marlene discovers an unexpected— and ugly—parallel between the Oakley murder and the disappearance of another debutante: a treacherous underworld of upscale call girls and the price paid for indulging the wealthiest of men. As she explores these sordid truths, Butch Karp navigates his own tortured waters. What he soon discovers is that everyone, from the conspiratorial Jabbar and O’Dowd to the city’s most powerful, unimpeachable players—has a secret that could either set them free or cost them more than they ever feared.With more than twelve million copies of his books in print, Robert K. Tanenbaum continues to rivet readers to their seats with the kind of explosive thrillers that have made him “a writer worth knowing” (Washington Post ).
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nobody home, July 27 2010
By Julia M. Walker - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Betrayed (Hardcover)
The Tanenbaums with the one-word titles are written by a ghost-writer other than Michael Gruber, he who wrote all of the two-word title Tanenbaums. Well, I've finally decided why there's only one word: because the writer wants the titles to be as mercifully forgettable as the books themselves.
As other reviewers observe, to read the first 50 pages is to read the last three novels over again. As a person who sometimes re-reads mysteries and thrillers, this isn't, in itself, the kiss of death for me. But those were three novels I'd never choose to visit again. Mr Steve Jackson (whom Tanenbaum semi-acknowledges in the fulsome credits) needs to study the work of Marsha Muller and Donna Leon to see how to convey the past events of a long-running series without boring faithful fans to tears.
But first Mr Jackson needs to re-read the early, Gruber-penned, Tanenbaums. These characters simply don't add up.
Sure, it's better than the first post-Gruber book, which radically misremembered the dramatic circumstances of Lucy Karp's birth, but it's still impossible to believe that the Lucy I watched grow up as an edgy, independent, urban demi-urchin, gifted with languages and spirituality and sheer nerve, could turn into this vanilla blob of a young woman. And it's beyond the remotest chance that either she or her mother could be pictured as follows:
"She [Marlene] and Lucy had spent many happy hours going over plans, invitations, and guest lists" for Lucy's wedding. (p 49)
No. No no no no. This isn't a 50's sitcom. Somewhere the real Marlene Ciampi is yelling obscenities, while the real Lucy has left the building entirely.
Similarly, the original Butch Karp -- painted here as a simple soul whose quest for justice is the product of a childhood spent watching John Wayne movies -- could never have uttered the banality of "Like I should care?" (p79) unless he was quoting someone else.
As for the plot. Well, if you've read any of the last 5 novels, you've seen it before (even if you don't remember it.)
In the abstract, I'd have thought that it would be relatively easy to sustain a wildly successful series. And I would have been wrong. If, like me, you miss the Karp/Ciampi clan, just reread the first 14 books.
In this book, nobody's home.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Seriously who wrote this, July 18 2010
By Stephanie L Ebert - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Betrayed (Hardcover)
I have read all the books in the Ciampi/Karp series and enjoyed most of them alot. I feel like whoever wrote this book , I don't think it is the same person who wrote the others should have spent a little more time reading the series from the beginning. Although this was an ok read it just wasn't even close to what I have come to expect from this author. I think that anyone who has read this series from the beginning would agree. I felt like I was reading about strangers not the characters I have followed and enjoyed for years. I to think this will be my last book in this series.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
My last Karp-Ciampi book, July 11 2010
By Ronald M. Baruch - Published on Amazon.com
This is my last Robert Tanenbaum book. If you are a reader of all previous books then you learned about them through three quarters of this book. The author dragged on and on the past story lines leaving a rushed through lack of depth to a new story line. To new readers of this series, I hope you enjoyed Betrayed. But to old timers like myself, it was a drudgery
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