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In The Arraignment, the seventh and most compelling entry in the Paul Madriani series, Steve Martini spins a tale of greed, deception, and white collar crime that reaches from San Diego to Cancun and from ancient Mayan civilization to the present day. When attorney Paul Madriani's discovers his friend and fellow lawyer Nick Rush gunned down with a dubious client outside the federal courthouse, he feels responsible. Nick left his handheld device on the table where he and Paul had just finished breakfast, and if Paul had tried harder to get Nick's attention to return it, Nick might still be alive. Now, Paul is left with a piercing sense of guilt and a host of unanswered—and seemingly unanswerable—questions. Was Nick's death an accident, a case merely of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was he murdered because of his association with Gerald Metz, the shady contractor whom Paul himself had turned down as a client? Why did Nick try to steer Metz his way? And why was Nick, as Paul later discovers, in business with someone like Metz?
To untangle these mysteries, Paul is willing to represent a man who may be a murderer, to jeopardize his own life to save that man's wife and child, and to let himself be taken on an ill-fated trip to Mexico that plunges him into a world of thievery, treachery, and violence. Throughout the novel, we see Paul in all his complexity. He is not just a razor-sharp lawyer, though he is very much that, frequently demonstrating his relentless skill as an interrogator, and even turning the tables on the insurance company to satisfy both Nick's grudging ex-wife Margaret and his grasping widow Dana. But he is also a caring father and a faithful friend, a man of generous instincts and remarkable bravery. Perhaps most unusually, Paul Madriani is a lawyer keenly aware of the thin facade that covers the misdeeds of the legal profession and equally capable of questioning his own conscience.