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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Suspended expectations, blithe indifference and pervasive self-dealing has now become Baltimore City's identity. While ordinary people in the city struggle to find what is left for them, for a few well-connected financial interests, the city's dysfunction provides a targeted opportunity. Several well-connected business interest, use their access and influence to further enrich themselves. A foreign financial interest, uses predatory financing to take control of a strategic asset. Mark Lewellen, the United States Attorney, calculates that that harsh prosecution strategies and stiff sentencing recommendations will provide his ambition a path forward. However, Mark Lewellen's ambition quickly becomes obstructed by claims that his prosecution strategy disproportionately targets disadvantaged communities. Protestors in front of the federal courthouse deploy Harold the Rat, to further draw attention to their campaign for justice. The 20 foot gray rat, wears a white bib that reads, "U.S. Attorney Lewellen Is Addicted To Incarceration." Lewellen reacts by taking on several high-profile prosecutions that he believes will draw positive attention to himself. Federal prosecutors charge a member of the violent MS-13 gang with the murder of a young lawyer whose body was found in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Lewellen expects that the prosecution will not face significant opposition and he expects a quick and easy conviction. However, Lewellen's expectation for a quick conviction is upset by the persistent efforts of defense attorney, Michael Deering. The discovery of a covert DEA operation in El Salvador threatens to derail the prosecution and Lewellen's path forward. In this intense political and legal thriller and sequel to the Price of Fear, former federal prosecutor Thomas M DiBiagio, provides a stunning account of how the cost of corruption and the underlying lack of conscience and indifference, facilitates pushes a city further over the edge. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Governor turns to her Chief of Staff and remarks in frustration, "You never know what is going to happen when you take a nobody and shine a light on him." Rebecca Benjamin is expressing her regret in sponsoring Michael Deering to become the chief federal prosecutor. Benjamin is now concerned that Deering has become a threat to her political ambition. Soon after his appointment, Michael Deering finds himself entangled between the competing political ambitions of the Governor and Baltimore City's Mayor. Deering quickly becomes a convenient target for the escalating gun violence and an excuse for the failure of public officials to address Baltimore City's underlying poverty issues. The conflict only serves to harden the eroding level of trust and confidence in police and prosecutors by City residents.Michael Deering is constantly being told to lower his expectations and avoid clashes with his staff and the politicians. But he persists and believes that rigorous expectations will restore public trust in the criminal justice system. For Deering, this means, increasing the scrutiny on the many questionable business practices and self-serving relationships in the City. It all seems to come undone when the body of a young women is found in the Inner Harbor in apparent drug gang retaliation killing. The homicide investigation that follows, calls into question whether Deering will be able to overcome the constant path of indifference and injustice.In this crime and political thriller, by a former federal prosecutor Thomas M DiBiagio, we are provided a stunning account of the recurring conflict between politics and the criminal process. The Price of Fear revels the constant individual calculations and compromises that explains the lack of any "tipping point" and captures how a City becomes undone. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…