Misguided

Sons whose fathers had troubled pasts intersect in a high-profile drug trafficking trial in Manhattan federal court, dubbed by the media “The Safe Sex Sausage Caper” because the drugs were concealed in condoms inside sausages.

These sons – defense lawyer Corbin Flame, accused drug dealer Ricardo Robledo, prosecutor Jaxon Bjornsten, Judge Justin Kendall, private eye Bart Viella, and mob lawyer Nick Annunzio – confront the sins and shortcomings of their fathers in a dark scenario featuring disguises, duplicity, offshore bank accounts, sailplanes, sex, treachery, and trial action rendered convincingly by an author who has been both a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney.

Not since The Bonfire of the Vanities has a writer shone so realistic and compelling a light behind the scenes of a criminal case.