In the wake of a huge drug bust, two elderly Chinatown residents are charged, baffling prosecutor Dan Mahoney with incongruous evidence and sending Susan Linwood and David Clark on a dangerous journey into the Far East. Reprint.
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About the Author:
Philip Friedman is a practising attorney living in New York City. His previous novels include RAGE, which was also a film starring George C Scott and Martin Sheen; TERMINATION ORDER, which the New York Times called 'one of the best spy stories of the year'; REASONABLE DOUBT and INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE - both of which became worldwide bestsellers. His novel of the conspiracy surrounding the assassination of John Kennedy, ACT OF LOVE, ACT OF WAR, was republished in 1994 under the title WALL OF SILENCE.
From the Inside Flap:
ATING . . . A NEAR-EPIC STORY."
*Chicago Tribune
The New York police seize more than a million dollars tainted with heroin powder, implicating two elderly and distinguished Chinatown residents. Their case is rushed before the grand jury.
"INTRIGUING."
*The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Susan Linwood and David Clark are strangers before being asked to serve in the name of justice. Yet as prosecutor Dan Mahoney presents the drug-conspiracy case, they soon become completely absorbed with the proceedings--and increasingly with each other.
"IMPRESSIVE . . . [A] RICHLY NUANCED NOVEL."
*Publishers Weekly
As Mahoney struggles with facts that refuse to fit the crimes his superiors have told him to pursue, Linwood and Clark are launched onto a treacherous path to Hong Kong and China, to the edge of disaster *uncoverin
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- PublisherIvy Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0804112959
- ISBN 13 9780804112956
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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