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<title>Deadly Diamonds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/john-dobbyn/deadly_diamonds.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/john-dobbyn/deadly_diamonds_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Deadly Diamonds" alt ="Deadly Diamonds"/></a><br//>What do Boston, Dublin, and Sierra Leone have in common? The movement of blood diamonds at enormous profit but grave human expense: mafia killings in Boston and Ireland and child enslavement and murder in Sierra Leone. And who is ensnared in the middle of all of this Michael Knight and Lex Devlin. Can they stop the enormously profitable trade of these tainted jewels? They must come between the Italian mafia in North Boston and the Irish mafia in South Boston including some remnants of the IRA in Ireland. They must also pit themselves against the enslaved and deadly child-army in Sierra Leone, who smuggle these diamonds into the mainstream for cash to buy weapons and drugs. At great personal risk, Knight and Devlin struggle to find a solution that satisfies this disparate combination of characters and, hopefully, dampens the diamond flow.]]></description>
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<title>Neon Dragon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/john-dobbyn/neon_dragon.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/john-dobbyn/neon_dragon_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Neon Dragon" alt ="Neon Dragon"/></a><br//><div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3>Fans of the film <em>True Believer</em> will best appreciate law professor Dobbyn's debut, a routine legal thriller with a similar plot. Michael Knight, a junior associate at a high-powered Boston firm, gets asked by a powerful African-American judge, Amos Bradley, to represent his son, Anthony, who has been accused of gunning down a beloved member of the city's Chinese community under cover of a New Year's parade. This assignment brings Knight to the attention of the firm's disgraced legend, Alexis Devlin, who has been keeping a low profile since he was alleged to have participated in jury-tampering to help a client. As the two attorneys search for the truth, Knight ventures into dangerous neighborhoods on the trail of some major league political and judicial corruption. Considering his curriculum vitae—Latino street kid, Harvard law grad and former federal prosecutor—Knight comes across as oddly naïve, while his ignorance of Chinatown's organized criminals doesn't ring true. <em>(Mar.)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. <h3>From Booklist</h3>This debut novel by law professor Dobbyn marks the first long-form appearance of legal eagles Michael Knight and Lex Devlin, who've starred in several of the author's short stories. Every team needs an "origin story," and this is theirs: the case that first brought the newcomer and the veteran together. A man is murdered during Boston's Chinese New Year celebrations. The man arrested for the crime is the son of a judge, who asks Knight to defend the accused in court. With Devlin's help, Knight navigates the treacherous world of Chinese organized crime, drugs, and political corruption. Dobbyn, who knows his characters like the back of his hand, is an engaging writer, and readers who have followed the adventures of Knight and Devlin in short stories will give a small cheer that they've finally made the leap to the hardcover novel. <em>David Pitt</em><br><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></div>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:42:34 +0200</pubDate>
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