The Defense Lawyer
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From a master of true crime comes the story of the criminal lawyer who represented everybody from Manuel Noriega to John Gotti to Bernie Goetz—and won every single case.
Known for his sharp mind, sharp suits, and bold courtroom strategies, Bronx-native Barry Slotnick is known as the best criminal lawyer in the US.
He calls himself “Liberty’s Last Champion.”
Slotnick mediates Bette Midler’s bathhouse contract and represents John Gotti, “The Dapper Don.” He defends “Subway Shooter” Bernie Goetz and negotiates future First Lady Melania Trump’s pre-nup.
His unparalleled legal brilliance defines a profession, a city—and an era.
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James Patterson. (2021). The Defense Lawyer. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)James Patterson. 2021. The Defense Lawyer. Little, Brown and Company.
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From a master of true crime comes the story of the criminal lawyer who represented everybody from Manuel Noriega to John Gotti to Bernie Goetz—and won every single case.
Known for his sharp mind, sharp suits, and bold courtroom strategies, Bronx-native Barry Slotnick is known as the best criminal lawyer in the US.
He calls himself “Liberty’s Last Champion.”
Slotnick mediates Bette Midler’s bathhouse contract and represents John Gotti, “The Dapper Don.” He defends “Subway Shooter” Bernie Goetz and negotiates future First Lady Melania Trump’s pre-nup.
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From a master of true crime comes the story of the criminal lawyer who represented everybody from Manuel Noriega to John Gotti to Bernie Goetz—and won every single case.
Known for his sharp mind, sharp suits, and bold courtroom strategies, Bronx-native Barry Slotnick is known as the best criminal lawyer in the US.
He calls himself “Liberty’s Last Champion.”
Slotnick mediates Bette Midler’s bathhouse contract and represents John Gotti, “The Dapper Don.” He defends “Subway Shooter” Bernie Goetz and negotiates future First Lady Melania Trump’s pre-nup.
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November 1, 2021
The Patterson publishing machine clanks its way into the nonfiction aisles in this lumbering courtroom drama. Barry Slotnick made a considerable fortune and reputation as a defense attorney who had a long list of controversial clients, including mob boss John Gotti and Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. An "urbane lawyer known for his twenty-five-hundred-dollar Fioravanti suits, he was not unacquainted with violence," write Patterson and Wallace. One of his early cases, indeed, involved a group of Jewish Defense League members who allegedly blew up a Broadway producer's office, killing a woman who worked there. Slotnick's defense was a standard confuse-the-jury ploy, but it worked. He put similar tactics to work in his defense of Bernhard Goetz, the "subway shooter" whose trial made international news. The authors open after that trial had concluded in yet another Slotnick win, and with a sensational incident: He was attacked by a masked man who beat him with a baseball bat. The evidence is sketchy, but it seems to place the attack in the hands of organized crime--perhaps even Gotti himself. No matter: Slotnick, "who saw himself as the foe of the all-powerful government" and "liberty's last champion," was soon back to representing clients including Radovan Karadzic, the murderous Bosnian Serb who was eventually imprisoned for having committed genocide; Dewi Sukarno, the widow of Indonesia's similarly bloodstained president, "arrested for slashing the face of a fellow socialite with a broken champagne glass at a party in Aspen"; and Melania Trump, who had chosen Slotnick "to handle her prenup." In the hands of a John Grisham, the story might have come to life, but while Patterson does a serviceable if clich�-ridden job of recounting Slotnick's career, he fails to give readers much reason to admire the man. For Patterson fans who can't get enough.COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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