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New law grad Denny Martel is drawn into the life of North Beach and San Francisco in 1966. Angela, the beautiful brilliant psychotherapist turned stripper, and May, Vogue cover model and heroin addict provide romance and danger. Denny represents Claudia, the woman he left in L.A., in a real estate deal in Chinatown while a gang war rages. Denny navigates the treacherous landscape and the intertwined lives of three beautiful, complicated, and dangerous women involving him in intrigue and homicide while, in the background, a conservative San Francisco rapidly evolves into an international center of all things.
Malibu, CA, 1968. Denny Martel, a twenty-seven-year-old trial lawyer wunderkind in the Los Angeles County Public Defender's office, becomes deeply involved in the hunt for a serial killer. He soon realizes he's the target of a secret LAPD unit, and his Malibu beach cottage is no refuge. In the gritty LA trial courts, on the Venice Beach testosterone-charged "A" basketball court, in the "wilds" of Malibu, and among an amazing cadre of beautiful and complicated women, Denny seeks justice and his true self. In the summer of 1968, a serial killer is loose in Los Angeles. The press calls him the Night Slayer, and he robs "mom-and-pop" businesses in South Central LA, leaving no witnesses. As the S...
Denny Martel, a young and promising public defender assigned to Los Angeles Central Division Trials, is making a name as an aggressive and unrelenting advocate for his clients. These clients, who cannot afford their own counsel, are assigned to him at random from a mix of unfortunates charged with felonies. The PD office is in the beginning stages of a huge expansion, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, and the U.S. is fully involved in the Vietnam War. This confluence of circumstances produces an influx of socially evolved and involved recent graduates of top law schools into the public law offices. These young Turks, not least among them Denny, take the times...
Malibu, CA, 1968. Denny Martel, a twenty-seven-year-old trial lawyer wunderkind in the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s office, becomes deeply involved in the hunt for a serial killer. He soon realizes he’s the target of a secret LAPD unit, and his Malibu beach cottage is no refuge. In the gritty LA trial courts, on the Venice Beach testosterone-charged “A” basketball court, in the “wilds” of Malibu, and among an amazing cadre of beautiful and complicated women, Denny seeks justice and his true self. In the summer of 1968, a serial killer is loose in Los Angeles. The press calls him the Night Slayer, and he robs “mom-and-pop” businesses in South Central LA, leaving no wit...
Denny Martel in Circle Back is thirty years old and several years into his career as a criminal trial lawyer. He has fought the good fight on hundreds of rape, robbery, and murder trials. The unrelenting stress of trial after trials has begun to take its toll. Denny’s romantic life has run into a dead end. Just as the prospect of an imminent burnout appears Denny is assigned the case of Jess Scolopendra, a beautiful woman accused of the brutal murder and dismembering of her husband Miles. As Denny assembles a defense, he is the target of Charlie Manson’s street posse and Jess’ sometimes mafia hit man boyfriend. Manson and his girls have been convicted and are facing death sentences. Bruno, the boyfriend has issues with Denny, some to do with Jess, others to do with an ex of Denny. All of this drama is set in the midst of the great Sylmar earthquake aftermath and the end of the Manson trial.
Denny Martel, a young and promising public defender assigned to Los Angeles Central Division Trials, is making a name as an aggressive and unrelenting advocate for his clients. These clients, who cannot afford their own counsel, are assigned to him at random from a mix of unfortunates charged with felonies. The PD office is in the beginning stages of a huge expansion, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, and the U.S. is fully involved in the Vietnam War. This confluence of circumstances produces an influx of socially evolved and involved recent graduates of top law schools into the public law offices. These young Turks, not least among them Denny, take the times...
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture, in which utopian modernism was practically prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Radically redefining the historiography of the period, it reveals how the relationship between the Party and practicing architects was much more complex than previously believed, and shows, in contrast to the conventional narratives, how the architectural avant-garde was able to persist at a time when it was widely considered to have been driven underground. In doing so, this book provides an essential new perspective on how to analyze, evaluate, and “reimagine” the global history of...