Hell Gate
Linda Fairstein
2010, 400 pages
Setting: New York City
Former prosecutor Fairstein adds another fast-paced legal thriller featuring New York City Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper to her resume. Alex is called to the scene of a boat wreck with an unusual cargo – human trafficking victims. Bodies have washed up along the coast, and most of the victims have drowned. Yet one young woman died from a stab wound, and no survivors remember seeing her on the boat. A domestic scandal involving an up and coming Congressman, plus the political posturing of the D.A. and the Mayor regarding both cases, leaves Alex with her hands full trying to figure out if any of these things are connected. Fairstein throws in a fair number of historical tidbits about the architecture and landscape of Manhattan which enrich the novel, and her spot-on depiction of real police work adds a realistic tone to this work.
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