The Arraignment
- Author: Steve Martini
- Narrator: Erik Bergmann
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 12:19:22
Synopsis
"Lean, speedy and packing a wallop of a plot twist" was Publishers Weekly's verdict of Steve Martini's The Jury. Now Martini crafts yet another legal nail-biter featuring perennial favorite attorney Paul Madriani.
After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend the man, but to find out who killed his friend and why. Madriani is tortured by questions of conflict, his duty to a client who may have killed is friend, and the need to know the truth, wondering whether he himself had been marked for death only to have a friend die in his place. Soon he is drawn into a vortex of crime that spans the Americas.
As he searches for the killer, Madriani rides the crest of a dangerous wave of international drug deals and people who murder for money. Suddenly he realizes it is not heroin or cocaine that resulted in the murder of his friend, but a priceless piece of pre-Columbian art - something so dazzling in the information it holds as to be one of the treasures of the ages.
In a quest that takes Madriani from California to Mexico and the Guatemalan border, he discovers that while the motive to kill may be driven by distant, exotic, and ancient artifacts, the killer, like a serpent, lies much closer at hand.
Chapters
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001 The Arraignment
Duration: 38s -
002 Chapter 01
Duration: 28min -
003 Chapter 02
Duration: 18min -
004 Chapter 03
Duration: 32min -
005 Chapter 04
Duration: 24min -
006 Chapter 05
Duration: 22min -
007 Chapter 06
Duration: 26min -
008 Chapter 07
Duration: 09min -
009 Chapter 08
Duration: 20min -
010 Chapter 09
Duration: 18min -
011 Chapter 10
Duration: 24min -
012 Chapter 11
Duration: 28min -
013 Chapter 12
Duration: 17min -
014 Chapter 13
Duration: 22min -
015 Chapter 14
Duration: 18min -
016 Chapter 15
Duration: 09min -
017 Chapter 16
Duration: 38min -
018 Chapter 17
Duration: 11min -
019 Chapter 18
Duration: 22min -
020 Chapter 19
Duration: 20min