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Enemy Within (Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, Bk 13)
Enemy Within - Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, Bk 13
Author: Robert K. Tanenbaum
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum ratchets up the suspense with an authentic and morally complex mystery set deep inside the New York City police department. — When a black man is shot multiple times in the back on the streets of New York by an NYPD golden boy, chaos erupts throughout the city. And in an elect...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743403429
ISBN-10: 0743403428
Publication Date: 8/1/2001
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Atria
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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scrapbooklady avatar reviewed Enemy Within (Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, Bk 13) on + 472 more book reviews
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Once again, we check out an instalment in the lives of Butch Karp, Chief Assistant District Attorney and his wife, Marlene Ciampi, a director of an international security agency. Butch finds himself faced with challenge after challenge, both professional and personal. "Enemy Within" is an entertaining and engrossing legal thriller that will undoubtedly please the many fans of this long-running and successful series.
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gigi avatar reviewed Enemy Within (Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, Bk 13) on + 355 more book reviews
Sharp and complex.
reviewed Enemy Within (Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, Bk 13) on + 222 more book reviews
Lawyer and law professor Tanenbaum (Reckless Endangerment) brings back his husband-and-wife team of chief ADA Butch Karp and former gunslinger Marlene Ciampi to fight corruption while bringing up their "mutant offspring" in the whirlwind of IPO-era New York City. Opening with two shooting cases Karp suspects are being rammed through "the system" for purposes of political expediency (it being an election year for the DA), the bedraggled-but-upstanding Karp finds himself in a dire situation involving allegations of racism, police conspiracy and potentially misguided use of the newly reinstated death penalty. His spitfire Italian wife, Marlene from Queens, having hung up her guns for a quiet job with a corporate security firm, is swept away on a tide of newfound paper wealth when her company issues a sky-high IPO following a suspiciously well-timed VIP rescue in Kosovo. Meanwhile, their eldest, wayward genius Lucy (who can absorb languages like a sponge), has gotten herself involved in a dicey situation through her charitable work with the homeless when a serial killer begins targeting her charges. Tanenbaum weaves these three main plots (with several subplots attached to each) in a somewhat bewildering pattern of grotesque social inequalities and dirty city politics; while the problems of Karp and his daughter are clearly on a collision course, Marlene provides a form of comic relief via her demented trajectory of reckless spending and alcoholism. The overall story line is more than a bit far-fetched, but fans of Tanenbaum's characters, sharp dialogue and grasp of the intricacies of New York's legal system will not be disappointed.
reviewed Enemy Within (Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, Bk 13) on + 11 more book reviews
Another Butch Karp novel set in New York when a black man is shot in the back by a "golden boy" street cop. a whitewash is uncovered and an encounter with a serial killer which leads to further excitement and mahem.


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