![]() ![]() In the mid-1980s Martini began his fiction-writing career. He is currently inactive with the State Bar of California, choosing writing instead as a full-time occupation. He has worked as an administrative hearing officer, a supervising hearing officer, an administrative law judge, and for a time served as Deputy Director of the State Office of Administrative Hearings. During his law career, in addition to other activities, he worked as a legislative representative for the California Department of Consumer Affairs, the State Bar of California, and served as special counsel to the California Victims of Violent Crimes Program. Martini has practiced law both privately as well as for public agencies appearing in state and federal courts. He was admitted to the Bar in January 1975. During this period he attended night law school and in 1974 took his law degree from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. There he specialized in legal and political coverage. In 1970 he became the newspaper’s first correspondent at the State Capitol in Sacramento and later its bureau chief. He worked as a newspaper reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the largest legal newspaper in the country covering the state, the local courts and the civic center beat. Martini's first career was in journalism. Finding the unvarnished truth has never been so elusive - or so dangerous. It is a war in which the scales of justice are being tipped by evasion, deceit - and murder. ![]() Madriani faces a wilderness of mirrors in a courtroom battle where every witness can hide behind "national security," where information is power and digital information is absolute power. And yet more troubling, Madriani discovers that the victim was involved in a controversial government contract to combat terrorism by combing through the private computer records of millions of American citizens. Madriani begins to have new fears about his client, a man who would rather sit on a legal time bomb than talk about his past and get a chance at acquittal. The victim was an alluring businesswoman and software tycoon whose empire catered to the military, and the most damning evidence is the weapon that killed her: a handgun used solely in special operations where the double tap is the trademark of the most skilled assassins. Madriani's client is an enigma, a career soldier who refuses to talk about his past, though clearly he is a battle-tested pro. Madriani is faced with arcane ballistics evidence, the so-called double tap - two bullet wounds tightly grouped to a victim's head, from shots that can have been made only by a crack marksman. Attorney Paul Madriani defends a highly decorated soldier who is on trial for murder, and unwittingly steps into a maze of secrets and lies that the government - and even this client - would rather leave hidden and undisturbed. ![]()
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