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Street Legal: The Betrayal  
Author: William Deverell
ISBN: 1550226606
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review

Review
"Deverell's lean-mean style gives off sparks." —Publishers Weekly


Review
"Deverell's lean-mean style gives off sparks." —Publishers Weekly


Review
"Recreates the excitement, humour, and intelligence portrayed so well on screen."
-Quill & Quire

"A real Sizzler."
-The Whig-Standard, Kingston

"A rollicking romp of a read."
-The Edmonton Journal


From the Paperback edition.

Book Description
This legal thriller follows the lives of three young, ambitious lawyers in 1980 as they are setting up their own practice. The fledgling firm is rocked when partner Carrie Barr, the successful legal defense of the notorious Midnight Strangler, takes on the case of a suave, handsome accused hit man. The new client proves far more dangerous—and alluring—than she imagined, and soon she is drawn into a web of terror involving a rogue police operation, a ruthless drug lord, and a series of brutal murders that threatens to destroy the firm. A breathtaking courtroom scene dramatically rounds out this fast-paced mystery.


From the Publisher
"Recreates the excitement, humour, and intelligence portrayed so well on screen."
-Quill & Quire"A real Sizzler."
-The Whig-Standard, Kingston"A rollicking romp of a read."
-The Edmonton Journal




Street Legal: The Betrayal

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In Toronto's summer heatwave of 1980, a suave Quebecois is arrested for murder after a mysterious mob hit above a bowling alley leaves three men dead. Meanwhile, a serial strangler and rapist stalks the city's night streets. In a well-publicized murder trial in connection with the latest victim of the "Midnight Strangler," Carrington Barr gets her client off - and then discovers she is alone in believing in his innocence. This courtroom win leads to her next big case: the defence of the charismatic Quebecois, Andre Cristal. Inside the offices of Robinovitch, Barr, Barr, Tchobanian, the committed lawyers fight their own battles while working for justice in the courtroom amidst wily prosecutors and wilful judges. And to add to various other dramas, the threat to Carrie and Ted's marriage - in the form of a wealthy and attractive female client - creates a tug of war of loyalties within the firm. As the summer progresses, Leon Robinovitch is saddled with the defence of an anti-Semitic peddler of hate literature; Chuck Tchobanian represents a pornography salesman, which leads to friction at home; and Carrie finds herself in uneasy proximity to the world of a gangland drug ring, and increasingly, dangerously, vulnerable to her new client's charms.

     



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