Escape
By Robert K. Tanenbaum
(Pocket Star, Mass Market Paperback, 9781416546795, 736pp.)
Publication Date: February 24, 2009
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In New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum's most explosive thriller yet, Butch Karp takes on a controversial defense in the courtroom, as a deadly terrorist plot unfolds in the heart of Manhattan.
Claiming God commanded her to gruesomely murder her three small children, a radical political science professor with a high-profile politician husband pleads insanity, leaving New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp the arduous -- and incredibly unpopular -- task of proving that she's not. Meanwhile, an American-born jihadist detonates a suicide bomb inside a Manhattan synagogue. A harrowing question links the violent crimes -- is there any defense for a killer who believes committing murder is God's will? As Karp, his wife Marlene, their daughter Lucy, and a cast of eccentric accomplices begin a deadly manhunt, they uncover an intricate terrorist plot to paralyze New York's emergency response system and cripple the economy. They must find an assassin known only as "The Sheik" before he orchestrates a bloody massacre that could devastate the country forever....
Robert K. Tanenbaum has been homicide bureau chief of the New York criminal courts where 250 new cases arrive daily and ran the homicide bureau for the New York District Attorney’s Office and served as deputy chief counsel to the Congressional committee investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Most recently, he has taught Advanced Criminal Procedure at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. His previous works include the novels Outrage, Betrayed, Capture, Escape, Malice, Fury, Hoax, Resolved, Enemy Within, and Absolute Rage and true-crime books The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer and Badge of the Assassin.
"A fast-paced, provocative legal thriller that Tanenbaum almost has a copyright on." -- Vincent Bugliosi, former Los Angeles District Attorney and bestselling author of Helter Skelter
"One hell of a writer." -- New York Post
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