The Arraignment

　　Taut, high speed, and packing a trademark wallop of a plot twist at the end, this new Steve Martini novel leaves no doubts as to lawyer-hero Paul Madriani's supremacy among the legion of courthouse protagonists in contemporary fiction. Hard-hitting and intelligent, The Arraignment shows why Steve Martini remains the most popular and acclaimed practitioner of the form.

　　After a close lawyer friend is killed long with a high-profile client n a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse, Paul Madriani reluctantly takes on the surviving co-defendant's case. As Paul warily sorts through the evidence surrounding his friend's murder, The Arraignment steadily gathers momentum and guides us toward a shattering and wholly unpredictable climax.