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Title details for Hoax by Robert K. Tanenbaum - Available

Hoax

#16 in series

by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Richard Ferrone
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The shooting death of a rap mogul is the first link in a sinister chain ensnaring New York District Attorney Butch Karp. With his wife and daughter on a New Mexico retreat, Karp is left to fend for his teenaged sons and himself. Descending into the hip-hop underworld to prosecute a killer, Karp comes head-to-head with Andrew Kane, a powerful would-be mayor whose corrupt web of influence leads Karp to unveil a shocking church sex-abuse scandal. In a world where secrets can be buried for an often-deadly price, Karp discovers there is no safe haven.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 4, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781442342958
      • File size: 550287 KB
      • Duration: 19:06:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 2, 2004
      One sure way to engage reader sympathy in a crime novel is to involve the hero's family; in Roger "Butch" Karp's 15 earlier adventures (Resolved
      ; Absolute Rage
      ; etc.), the DA's family has paid dearly for this inclusion. Wife Marlene is disfigured from a letter bomb, 11-year-old son Giancarlo has been blinded by a would-be assassin, and daughter, Lucy, was abducted twice: "His entire family seemed to attract danger as picnics did ants." Marlene is attending a Taos art therapy school, healing the psychic toll of dispensing vigilante justice and thwarting terrorists. Lucy is there, too, leaving dad behind to battle "evil incarnate" in the form of Andrew Kane, a sociopath running for mayor of New York. Kane's pursuits include insider trading, drugs, prostitution, money laundering, arms sales and extortion. Characters include a killer priest, corrupt policemen, a gallant American-Indian cop and mole people who crawl out of the city's sewers to haunt the night, among others. Tanenbaum keeps all these balls in the air while lecturing on the evils of racism, the plight of the modern Indian, the value of honor, the evils of gangsta rap and much, much more. It is by turns boring, insightful, pedestrian, silly, maudlin, exhausting and exciting. Agent, Robert G. Diforio. (Aug.)

      Forecast:
      This will do well with Tanenbaum's numerous fans, but it's too preachy to bring many new readers to the series.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      New York District Attorney Butch Karp is plagued with murders and other intrigue in this convoluted mystery, especially when Andrew Kane a wealthy, ruthless mayoral wanna-be is implicated. When a rapper is murdered and the dead bodies of preteen boys begin to be found, the plot churns and Lee Sellars has his narration work cut out for him. The importance and individuality of each character are reflected in Sellars's choice of tone and phrasing, making all separate in the ears of the listener. From raspy phone conversations to blustery politicos, Tanenbaum weaves his plot, and Sellars helps the listener keep pace to the conclusion. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Author Brian Stelter energetically narrates this impassioned takedown of the incestuous relationship between President Trump and Fox News. A longtime media critic and host of CNN's "Reliable Sources," he reads his tell-all at a quick pace, his cadence worthy of a schooled broadcaster, his tone indignant. The author's voice reveals an unstinting sense of disappointment for Fox News' ceding of its programming to Trump; for its bullying, propaganda-spewing hosts (Hannity, Ingram, Tucker); for the the morning Tumpfest of "Fox & Friends" and the dangerous downplaying of COVID-19. There's no doubt that with this book Stelter, who has been maligned by Fox anchors, has his day in the court of public opinion. His audiobook is a must for anyone who wants to understand Fox and its most important viewer. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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