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October 2017
On Sale: October 10, 2017
368 pages
ISBN: 1590794389
EAN: 9781590794388
Kindle: B076HYZNZN
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Fast paced legal thriller and powerful urban drama from
Frederic Block, the Brooklyn based federal judge who
sentenced Peter Gotti of the Gambino crime family. Based
partly on fact and seething racial tensions and political
corruption, it doesn't get any more "New York" than Race to
Judgment! Race to Judgment is a "reality-fiction" debut novel loosely
based on a number of high-profile cases handled by its
author, a federal trial court judge, over his 23 years on
the federal bench in Brooklyn-such as the Crown Heights
riots and the Peter Gotti trial. It tracks the rise of the
fictional African-American civil rights protagonist Ken
Williams (in real life, the recently deceased Brooklyn DA
Ken Thompson) from his days as an Assistant United States
Attorney through his meteoric rise to unseat the long-term,
corrupt Brooklyn DA because of a spate of phony convictions
against black defendants, including another one of the
judge's real cases (JoJo Jones in the book) for the murder
of a Hasidic rabbi. Williams' dramatic courtroom antics
(with the aid of his colorful private eye) results in JoJo's
exoneration after 16 years behind bars. In addition,
Williams defends a young black guidance counselor accused of
killing the rabbi's son many years ago, and champions the
cause of a young Hasidic woman raped by her father. As a
hobby, Williams plays jazz piano and writes country songs
written by the author-which are reproduced in the book and
can be heard on e-books and the Internet.
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