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Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel **Signed**
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject
- Mystery, Thriller
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Signed
- ISBN
- 9780553801415
- EAN
- 9780553801415
- Book Title
- Special Circumstances
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Legal, Mystery & Detective / General
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 26.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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Product Information
Introducing an electrifying new voice in legal fiction--in a phenomenal thriller unlike anything you've read before... Debut author Sheldon Siegel bursts into the legal arena with a riveting courtroom drama, exposing the world of big-time law firms and lawyers in a sharp-witted, wonderfully sardonic page-turner of a novel. Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest. Ex-public defender. Ex-husband. And as of yesterday, ex-partner at Simpson & Gates, one of San Francisco's most prominent law firms. Today he's out on his own, setting up a private practice on the wrong side of town. Then his best friend and former colleague is charged with a brutal double murder. Daley has his first client--and is instantly catapulted into a high-profile case involving the prestigious law firm that just booted him. The victims are one of Simpson & Gates's most powerful partners and a beautiful young associate. There's a suicide note on the partner's computer, but neither the police nor the ambitious district attorney believe it's authentic--and they think the man they've arrested is the killer. It's up to Mike Daley to prove them wrong, but time is very short. As Daley prepares his case, he begins to uncover the firm's dirtiest secrets--and dirty they are--but he also discovers that his friend, too, has a lot to hide. Even as the trial is under way, Daley and his investigators are still frantically digging for evidence that will clear their client. Against a chorus of morning press reports and nightly TV commentaries picking apart each day's session, Daley comes to realize that ambition, politics, greed, and long-standing grudges will play just as important a role in the outcome as truth and justice. This is the real world of law practice at work, and it's as ruthless as it is startling. Brilliantly paced, witty, crackling with energy and suspense, Special Circumstances not only brings us to a stunning denouement; it zestfully reminds us why we love to hate lawyers--but can't get enough of courtroom drama when it's done this well. In a stunning turn of events, Daley's best friend, an ex-colleague, is charged with the double murder of two lawyers at the old firm and asks Daley to defend him. Cobbling together a defense team composed of himself, his ex-wife, and a onetime courtroom fixture named Mort Goldberg who's been wished on him against his better judgment, Daley finds he's got more to defend than his friend's innocence. The newly elected media-hungry District Attorn- ey, also a former colleague, will prosecute the case himself. As court is called into session, it becomes clear that in this trial ambition, honor, friendship, greed, and longstanding grudges will play as important a role as truth and justice. Rarely has a legal thriller debut so accurately depicted not only the inner workings of the legal system but the crack-ling energy it takes to build and defend a felony case. In SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES author Sheldon Siegel reminds us why we love to hate lawyers -- but can't get enough of courtroom drama when it's done this well.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553801414
ISBN-13
9780553801415
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1630042
Product Key Features
Book Title
Special Circumstances
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Legal, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
26.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.I3823s64 2000
Reviews
"A rousing legal thriller." -Chicago Sun-Times "A page-turner of the finger-burning kind." -San Francisco Chronicle "An A+ first novel." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "A poignant, feisty tale ... characters so finely drawn you can almost smell their fear and desperation. The dialogue is taut and tangy." -USA Today "By the time the whole circus ends up in the courtroom, the hurtling plot threatens to rip paper cuts into readers' hands." -San Francisco Chronicle Don't miss Sheldon Siegel's latest legal thriller featuring Mike Daley: Incriminating Evidence Available in hardcover July 31, 2001, wherever Bantam Books are sold From the Paperback edition., "A rousing legal thriller." - Chicago Sun-Times "A page-turner of the finger-burning kind." - San Francisco Chronicle "An A+ first novel." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "A poignant, feisty tale ... characters so finely drawn you can almost smell their fear and desperation. The dialogue is taut and tangy." - USA Today "By the time the whole circus ends up in the courtroom, the hurtling plot threatens to rip paper cuts into readers' hands." - San Francisco Chronicle Don't miss Sheldon Siegel's latest legal thriller featuring Mike Daley: Incriminating Evidence Available in hardcover July 31, 2001, wherever Bantam Books are sold, "A rousing legal thriller." - Chicago Sun-Times "A page-turner of the finger-burning kind." - San Francisco Chronicle "An A+ first novel." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "A poignant, feisty tale ... characters so finely drawn you can almost smell their fear and desperation. The dialogue is taut and tangy." - USA Today "By the time the whole circus ends up in the courtroom, the hurtling plot threatens to rip paper cuts into readers' hands." - San Francisco Chronicle Don't miss Sheldon Siegel's latest legal thriller featuring Mike Daley: Incriminating Evidence Available in hardcover July 31, 2001, wherever Bantam Books are sold From the Paperback edition.
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-046456
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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