“Steve Martini rides his books as if they are surfboards. A helluva trip,” said Newsday about the New York Times best-seller Undue Influence, the book Kirkus Reviews called the “courtroom novel of the year.” Now, with The Judge, Martini returns to give his readers another edge-of-the-seat ride.

Steve Martini’s explosive new thriller finds attorney Paul Madriani the unlikely defense lawyer for an old nemesis. Judge Armando “the Coconut” Acosta is arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution in a sting operation of “johns,” and few, including Paul Madriani, who has a long history of enmity with the judge, are sympathetic. Abandoned by his friends on the Capital County bench, Acosta is forced, in an ironic twist, to ask Paul to save his career from impending doom. Paul initially rejects Acosta’s pleas, but when Acosta’s original defense lawyer is forced off the case by a zealous district attorney looking for revenge, Paul is required to step forward and defend the judge.
As the case proceeds, the young female deputy reserve officer who snared the judge is found brutally murdered, and Acosta is the prime suspect. The reason? The officer was the only person who could give evidence against the judge. With his client now charged with murder, Paul faces the most daunting, disturbing, and complex case of his career.
Packed with the nonstop drama and richly drawn characters that have come to be Steve Martini’s trademarks, The Judge delivers a decisive thumbs-up verdict.

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A vicious custody battle escalates into a murder trial in this gripping courtroom drama, Martini's third to be narrated by defense attorney Paul Madriani ( Compelling Evidence , Prime Witness ). Before Madriani's wife, Nikki, died of lung cancer, she asked that Madriani look after her sister, Laurel, who's now going through a bruising custody battle with her ex-husband, Jack Vega. When Jack's young new wife, Melanie, is murdered, all the evidence points to Laurel as the killer: not only was she was seen threatening Melanie and arguing with her just before the murder, but when she's captured by the police, she has the dead woman's compact in her purse. Madriani takes on Laurel's case, but it's an uphill battle. Potential witnesses for the defense have mysteriously disappeared; while searching for them and pursuing other leads, Madriani uncovers evidence that points to a very different motive for murder--and a very obvious suspect. The action builds to a rousing climax through a brilliant series of trial scenes with several surprises. The characters are sharply drawn, the facts of the case are presented simply and the courtroom psychology is laid out vividly. Martini, who knows how to tell a story, wastes little time setting up his premise; by the time the trial starts, readers will find their fingers glued to the pages. 175,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection.

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The gift of sight comes at a dangerous price..............
When Deep Down Salvage begins the hunt for the Josephine Marieit seems like any other dive . . . Until Genevieve Wallace sees the vision of a dead woman in the waterher vacant eyes boring into Genevieve's very soul.
Terrified and confused by what she sawGenevieve is haunted by the memorybut no one -- including her diving partner Thor Thompson -- believes her. When a dead woman washes up on shoreeveryone assumes this is Genevieve's "vision" but Genevieve knows the truth: the dead woman is not the ghost she saw but another victim of the same brutal killer.  
Sensing that the threat of death is coming closershe and Thor are forced to acknowledge that some things can't be explainedbut simply are. Somehow they have to link a violent past with a present-day mystery or risk losing themselves in an abyss of terror.

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'The multilayered plot becomes increasingly tense and exciting as each compassionately drawn character sheds his or her first skin to reveal the second and sometimes the third, while a deliciously reserved romance forms the sub-plot. Walters is on fine form with a gorgeous cast of contemporary eccentrics and her own inimitable style.'
The Mail on Sunday
'The Breaker stands head and shoulders above the vast majority of crime novels. Walters has tapped into the spirit of her times, and she irresistibly carries us along with her. Existing fans will love THE BREAKER; new readers will be instant converts.'
The Express
'THE BREAKER at one level, is a top class mystery. It is also a disturbing examination of sexual psychosis...Walters has an extraordinary capacity to enter warped minds. THE BREAKER disconcerts with its bleak insights, and excites as a traditional whodunnit.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2008
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Understanding the Linux Kernel

To thoroughly understand what makes Linux tick and why it's so efficient, you need to delve deep into the heart
of the operating system--into the Linux kernel itself. The kernel is Linux--in the case of the Linux operating system,
it's the only bit of software to which the term "Linux" applies. The kernel handles all the requests or completed I/O
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sophisticated memory management of the whole system, the Linux kernel is the force behind the legendary Linux
efficiency. The new edition of Understanding the Linux Kernel takes you on a guided tour through the most significant
data structures, many algorithms, and programming tricks used in the kernel. Probing beyond the superficial features,
the authors offer valuable insights to people who want to know how things really work inside their machine. Relevant
segments of code are dissected and discussed line by line. The book covers more than just the functioning of the code,
it explains the theoretical underpinnings for why Linux does things the way it does. The new edition of the book has
been updated to cover version 2.4 of the kernel, which is quite different from version 2.2: the virtual memory system is
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