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Bad Lawyer

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Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001 - Fiction - 295 pages
Sid Kaplan once had it all: a dynamic career in criminal law, success, celebrity, lots of money, and enough arrogance to alienate practically everybody he knew. So no one wept for Sid when booze and cocaine plummeted him to hell. Only now a big case has fallen into Sid's lap, a case that, Sid thinks, can take him back to where he was and wants -- no, deserves -- to be.

Thelma Barrow, a Queens housewife, has sought out Sid to defend her accused daughter, Priscilla, in a media-hot murder case. For Sid, the publicity more than compensates for the pittance Thelma can afford to pay, as the news headlines stories of drugs and violence and an abused white woman who has done in her black husband. Nor is Sid disinclined by the fact that the white woman is a babe -- an ice-cold babe who's probably lying about more than a little, but a babe nevertheless.

It's when drug dealers show up and insist that Priscilla is holding out on them with $450,000 of their money that matters begin to get more criminally perilous. Then Sid's two roommates -- the only friends he's managed not to lose -- are killed in an attempt to make Sid himself cough up the

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User Review  - Pamela - Goodreads

Bad Lawyer is a fascinating book about sobriety, the criminal justice system, the definition of family and revenge. Add to all these elements a complex murder mystery and you get a book that is hard ... Read full review

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User Review  - Otto Penzler - Goodreads

Stephen Solomita (David Cray) is a New York author of hard-boiled crime fiction and legal thrillers. He has a great ear for sharp and clever urban dialogue, and he is at the top of his game in Bad ... Read full review

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About the author (2001)

DAVID CRAY is the pseudonym of a well-known mystery writer who lives in New York City. He is the author of "Bad Lawyer, the Julia Brennan NYPD detective novels "Little Girl Blue and "What You Wish For, and, most recently, the crime novel "Partners.

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