“Be warned: do not start this book late at night... you won’t put it down before morning... and you’ll be surprised all the way to the last page.”-Rikki Klieman, former Court TV anchor and author of Fairy Tales Can Come True Paul Batista, one of the country’s foremost defense lawyers, has written the ultimate legal thriller with murder in its heart. When Tom Perini, a legendary Heisman Trophy winner turned criminal lawyer, is found brutally murdered in Central Park, his widow Julie not only must unravel the mysteries of her husband’s secret double life, but survive long enough to discover the truth. A thriller and courtroom drama of corruption and greed so authentic it leads like tomorrow’s headlines. “Grabs a reader by the throat from page one and won’t let go...Batista’s New York will now take its place alongside Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles as an iconographic image of urban power and frailty.”-Susan Jacoby, author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism