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After graduating from Harvard Law, Michael Knight seeks criminal defense work with trial attorney Lex Devlin, while his closest friend John McKedrick becomes sole associate of a notorious mob lawyer. When John is murdered in a car bombing bearing the signature of his questionable clientele, Michael reluctantly agrees to represent the alleged bomber, and is drawn into a high-stakes art fraud that leads him from the seediest parts of Boston to the sophisticated...
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What do Boston, Dublin, and Sierra Leone have in common? The movement of blood diamonds at enormous profit but grave human expense: mafia killings in Boston and Ireland and child enslavement and murder in Sierra Leone. And who is ensnared in the middle of all of this Michael Knight and Lex Devlin. Can they stop the enormously profitable trade of these tainted jewels? They must come between the Italian mafia in North Boston and the Irish mafia in South...
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Michael Knight and Lex Devlin agree to defend a jockey accused of murdering a fellow jockey during a race at Boston's Suffolk Downs. But the two end up in the middle of a conflict between Boston's Irish Mafia and remnants of the terrorist branch of the Irish Republican Army. Will the lawyer partners survive the case?
4) Neon dragon
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Amid the flash and din of Boston's raucous Chinese New Year's celebration, an elderly man is shot while watching the parade from his window. Anthony Bradley, the son of an African-American judge, is standing across the street at the time and is immediately arrested for the crime. Michael Knight, a young lawyer who's going places, is surprised when Judge Bradley asks him to defend his son in such a high profile and politically delicate case. Luckily,...
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A notable archaeologist, close to finding a priceless artifact, meets his untimely demise- Matthew Shane vows to find his murderer
Matthew Shane is a law professor in Salem, Massachusetts, where he enjoys a rewarding mentorship with Professor Barrington Holmes, a well-known archaeologist. So when Professor Holmes is found dead in his office and the police rule it a suicide, something doesn' t sit right with Matthew. He becomes...
6) High Stakes
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Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Steve Berry.
An authentic Stradivarius violin turns up in Romania. A Stradivarius is rare enough, but this one is even more special. It is thought to hold the code disclosing the location of a treasure hidden in the fifteenth century. The violin is steeped in haunting mystique: it is believed to have been hidden by Vlad Dracula, whose historic tyranny led to the fabrication of the myth of vampirism. Russian, Chinese,...
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Danger escalates as Michael Knight and Lex Devlin enter into the defense of a Puerto Rican jockey charged with felony murder as a result of a fixed race at Boston's Suffolk Downs.
As their investigation exposes the jockey's role, they become embroiled in a conflict between two Puerto Rican crime gangs. One of these gangs is aligned for the first time with Boston's Italian Mafia in tapping into almost limitless profits from the illicit trade of...
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These five novels in the Knight and Devlin series prove the Perry Mason spirit is alive and well.
From Chinatown and the brutal Tongs in Neon Dragon to international stolen art in Frame-Up, to the warring Boston Irish mob and Italian Mafia in Black Diamond, to the diamond trade in Sierra Leone in Deadly Diamonds, and to the Amazon rainforest's exotic animals in Fatal Odds, Knight and Devlin are relentless in their pursuit of truth and justice....