Mean Streak
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In the highest-profile case of her career, Cass defends her ex-lover in federal court in this Edgar Award–nominated legal thriller
It's hard not to be charmed by Matt Riordan. Ruggedly handsome, with a sharp wit and a voice like Belgian chocolate, he could woo any jury. His clients may be mobsters, but Riordan never seems to have any trouble winning sympathy for them. That charisma worked on Cass Jameson, too, even though she should have been smart enough to know better. A hard-boiled defense attorney who's made a living going toe to toe with the meanest bastards in Brooklyn, Cass nevertheless fell for the Riordan charm—right until he broke her heart.
Not long after Riordan runs out on her, Cass sees his smiling face on the cover of New York magazine. The most powerful defense attorney in New York has been accused of taking bribes, and he needs Cass to keep him out of jail. When one of Riordan's most vicious clients gets involved in the case, a smile won't be enough to keep him alive.
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Law enforcement emerges as a dirtier and much more interesting sport than mud wrestling when Brooklyn lawyer Cass Jameson, last seen in the well-received Fresh Kills, agrees to defend an ex-lover charged with bribery. Attorney Matt Riordan, who defends mob clients, claims he did not buy secret grand jury records of testimony given by minor criminal Nunzie Aiello: the charge-and possibly some of the evidence-has been handcrafted by federal prosecutor Nick Lazarus, ostensibly as a way of permanently getting rid of Matt. Since Nunzie has gone missing, the key is to prove that the prosecution's key witness, police officer Eddie Fitzgerald, is not as squeaky clean as he seems, a great idea until the drug dealer who could bring Eddie down turns up in the city morgue. In the meantime, the wheels of justice grind on (frustrating macho Matt, who says "adjournments are for losers"); and Cass, a convincing blend of shrewdness and emotion, watches her first high-profile, media-circus trial wobble toward increasingly likely defeat. Spurning a simple world of absolute good and evil, Wheat dexterously depicts a complex urban society where justice is not the uncontested province of the courts and it's best to keep a sharp eye on even those you think you can trust.
