num_pages: 403
description: In a quest that takes Madriani from California to Mexico and the Guatemalan border, he discovers that while the motive to kill may be driven by distant, exotic, and ancient artifacts, the killer, like a serpent, lies much closer at hand."Lean, speedy and packing a wallop of a plot twist" was Publishers Weekly's verdict of Steve Martini's "The Jury." Now Martini crafts yet another legal nail-biter featuring perennial favorite attorney Paul Madriani.After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend the man, but to find out who killed his friend and why. Madriani is tortured by questions of conflict, his duty to a client who may have killed his friend, and the need to know the truth, wondering whether he himself had been marked for death only to have a friend die in his place. Soon he is drawn into a vortex of crime that spans the Americas.As he searches for the killer, Madriani rides the crest of a dangerous wave of international drug deals and people who murder for money. Suddenly he realizes it is not heroin or cocaine that resulted in the murder of his friend, but a priceless piece of pre-Columbian art-something so dazzling in the information it holds as to be one of the treasures of the ages.In a quest that takes Madriani from California to Mexico and the Guatemalan border, he discovers that while the motive to kill may be driven by distant, exotic, and ancient artifacts, the killer, like a serpent, lies much closer at hand.
language: English
title: The Arraignment
titlecomplete: The Arraignment (Paul Madriani, #7)
characters: Marge (The Arraignment), Pablo Ibarra, Jeffrey Dolson, Margaret Rush, Adam Toit, Arturo Ibarra, Mejicano Rosen, Paul Madriani, Luther Conover, Sarah Madriani, Laura (The Arraignment), Susan Glendenin, Hector Saldado, Lieutenant Ortiz, Jorge (The Arraignment), Miguelito Espinoza, Harry Hinds, Dana Rush, Robin Watkins-Espinoza, Nick Rush, Gerald Metz, Nathan Fittipaldi, Herman Diggs and Julio Paloma, Grace Gimble, Jaime Ibarra, Zane Tresler, Joyce and Bennie Swartz, Gary Winston
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Law, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Legal Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 3822
places: California, Cancun, Mexico, San Francisco, California, San Diego, California, Mexico, Rome
series: Paul Madriani
publisher: Jove Pubns