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by Steve Martini

ISBN: 0515139734
ISBN13: 978-0515139730
Language: English
Publisher: Berkley; English Language edition (December 27, 2005)
Category: Thrillers and Suspense
Subategory: Thriller

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I especially like his novels about attorney Paul Madriani.

Madriani is faced with arcane ballistics evidence, the so-called double tap - two bullet wounds tightly grouped to a victim's head, from shots that. I especially like his novels about attorney Paul Madriani.

Steven Paul "Steve" Martini (born February 28, 1946) is an American writer of legal novels

Steven Paul "Steve" Martini (born February 28, 1946) is an American writer of legal novels. Born on February 28, 1946 in San Francisco, California, Steve Martini was raised until the age of ten in the Colma area of Daly City just south of San Francisco. He is part of a large extended Italian-American family, some of which reach back four generations in California. Martini’s mother and father moved to Los Angeles County, California in 1956.

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Paul Madriani, his companion Joselyn Cole, and his longtime law partner, Harry Hinds, track Liquida, not knowing that their quest will carry them deep into the vortex of international terror. It is a journey that will lead them toward a bizarre and cruel twist of nature-and the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini takes legal thrillers to a new level in this Paul Madriani novel about a. .In Double Tap, attorney Paul Madriani represents a former Delta Force operative, Emiliano Ruiz, being accused of murder of a CEO of a high tech company

New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini takes legal thrillers to a new level in this Paul Madriani novel about a soldier's secrets and a government's lies. A beautiful businesswoman, founder of a high-tech software company catering to the military, is found dead, two tightly grouped bullet wounds to her a head-a double tap, the trademark of highly skilled assassins. In Double Tap, attorney Paul Madriani represents a former Delta Force operative, Emiliano Ruiz, being accused of murder of a CEO of a high tech company Читать весь отзыв.

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Double Tap A Paul Madriani Novel.

A beautiful businesswoman, founder of a high-tech software company catering to the military, is found dead, two tightly grouped bullet wounds to her a head-a double tap, the trademark of highly skilled assassins.

Now Madriani is faced with daunting ballistics evidence: a so-called "double tap"-two bullet wounds tightly grouped in the victim's head, shots that could have been made only by a crack marksman. Paul's client, Emiliano Ruiz, is an enigma—a career soldier who refuses to discuss his past though it is clear that he is a battle-tested pro. Ruiz is accused of killing a beautiful businesswoman and guru of a high-tech software empire catering to the military. A key to the case: the murder weapon is one used solely in special operations, where the "double tap" has become the signature of the most skilled assassins.Ruiz is sitting on secrets-there's a seven-year gap on his military résumé, for which Madriani can find no details. And, more troubling, he discovers that the victim and her company were involved in a controversial government computer program designed to combat terrorists. Madriani finds himself in a deadly legal quagmire—with a client who is unwilling to cooperate and prosecutors who stonewall his every question about the victim's shadowy business and his client's past. Finding justice, and the unvarnished truth, has never been so elusive—or so dangerous.

Comments:

WtePSeLNaGAyko

Chose to read this book out of the many of Steve Martini's books as it was recommended as one of the better ones. The characters are interesting and you can't help but wonder how Paul Madriana is going to defend his client. The turn of events surprises the reader. You wonder will justice be done, and the truth does come out in the end. In reality, if all could end so well, life would be good.

Akinohn

While I am a huge Steve Martini fan, I was a little concerned when I read the dust jacket blurb about this book. I'm not a big fan of military thriller style books, and from the description, it appeared that he had moved closer to that genre than to the legal mystery category. However, judging books by their covers can be very deceptive, and this proved true with this book.

This is a wonderful legal mystery with numerous twists and turns. Steve Martini provides just enough peripheral characers as to make it difficult to really figure out who did it, and why. He also keeps you hanging until the end trying to figure out how the trial will end and whether his client will go free or fry.

The characters created by Mr. Martini are fantastic, with enough detail to make them interesting and little enough detail to know them too well. I particularly liked the prosecutor, whom Mr. Martini gave the nickname of the "Death Dwarf".

Finally, his characterizations of Harry Hinds and Paul Madriani are great. Unlike many writers of legal mysteries, his attorneys do not speak as if they came from a "silk stocking" law firm, but rather from the real world they would occupy. Harry is his usual smart mouthed self, while Mr. Madriani continues to be the calmer, and smarter of the two.

I highly recommend this book, along with the others written by Mr. Martini. I am now looking forward to my next chance to catch up with Harry, Paul and the others in his next book.

Roram

This series keeps getting better and better. This story really moves. It was a very quick read for me. Couldn't put it down. As with all the books in the series, there is a twist, one I never saw coming. These books are so well written it would be hard not to enjoy them. The author obviously does extensive research so that the plot is believable and more importantly credible. He creates fascinating characters and gives them life through his words. Can't wait to get on with the next one!

Vinainl

I feel bad for Paul Madriani, the main character in Steve Martini's series of legal thrillers. This is a man whose life is endangered every single time he defends someone accused of murder. I haven't finished the series yet, but I have to wonder whether Martini will ever allow Madriani to make it to the end of a novel without having a gun pulled on him or getting shot at or beaten or... whatever.

The Madriani series is solid. I have been reading the books in order for the last couple of months, and I have yet to regret a single one. Double Tap is one of the better entries in the series, thanks to the compelling case at its center. The ending doesn't cheat, which is essential in a legal thriller. This isn't Pulitzer Prize winning literature, to be sure. Just a good solid novel.

Cerar

Paul Madriani’s client appears guilty. It was his gun that killed the victim, with whom he had an affair. He says he is innocent, but the prosecutor has a strong case. The ending prove to very unexpected.

Winenama

Once again, Paul Madriani is back in court with his faithful sidekick, Harry Hinds. They are called upon to defend a highly decorated Army sergeant Emiliano Ruiz, who is charged with murdering the CEO of a firm that he has formerly been in charge of providing security for. There is evidence of an affair of some kind between the two and that Ruiz stalked the victim after his security detail was discharged by her. The gun used to kill her was issued to Ruiz while he was in the service and the type of shooting that killed her was known as a "double tap", a type of killing method that Ruiz was expert at.

Harry sums up their situation quite neatly as the trial nears: "Wonderful," says Harry. "We have a client who won't tell us where he was or what he was doing for seven years, who is caught on video in the buff doing push ups on the victim on her office couch. We have an exhibition of fine shooting that, in the absence of a critical piece of evidence or Annie Oakley, could only have been done by that same client. And if that wasn't enough," he says,"now we have to try the case against the 'Death Dwarf.'"

The "Death Dwarf" is Paul Templeton, a diminutive but highly effective prosecutor who presence in the case makes the trial aspect of the case indeed difficult for Madriani and Hinds and highly entertaining for the reader.

How Madriani goes about defending this case as well as the mystery of who did kill Madelyn Chapman is Steve Martini at his best. I have read all of his books and was somewhat dissapointed with the previous effort, The Arraignment. However, in Double Tap he is back in form and at the top of his game. The writing of this book took some time, but in this case, it was worth the wait.

Riavay

I found this author quite by accident and started his series from the beginning. They have all been good but this one has been the best so far. I enjoy Mr Martini's descriptions of opposing counsel and the judiciary. The subtleties of the choreography in the courtroom are both instructive and entertaining. These are presented in all of his books that I have read and, in this one, they are exceptional.

Finished the book an hour ago and will start #9 this evening.