Attorney Paul Madriani's latest case revolves around a controversial law professor's brutal murder. A young man with neo-Nazi connections has been charged, but Madriani thinks the defendant might be a victim as well.

While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.

Now Madriani is faced with daunting ballistics evidence: a so-called "double tap"--two bullet wounds tightly grouped in the victim's head, shots that could have been made only by a crack marksman. Paul's client, Emiliano Ruiz, is an enigma--a career soldier who refuses to discuss his past though it is clear that he is a battle-tested pro. Ruiz is accused of killing a beautiful businesswoman and guru of a high-tech software empire catering to the military....

In the course of a sting operation in California a judge is arrested for soliciting prostitution. Lawyer Paul Madriani, who hates the judge, takes the case out of human charity when every other lawyer refuses. As the case proceeds the young policewoman who snared the judge is slain. Police think the judge did it and now Madriani has a murder case on his hands. By the author of Undue Influence.

"Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power. One of the most successful lawyers in the country, Olinda Serna is a master at managing money as well as her influential clients. After years of fierce combat in the political trenches, Serna knows all the dirty secrets, where the bodies are buried, and how deeply they are stacked. When she's...

"Defense attorney Paul Madriani gets caught in a web of deceit and murder involving Cold War secrets, a rare coin dealer who once worked for the CIA, and a furious assassin in one of the most entertaining novels yet in this New York Times bestselling series. A woman pauses in the hallway of a darkened San Diego beach house at night--listening for just the right moment when she can flee before her companion notices that she's gone. A man outside watches...