An edition of Defending Billy Ryan (1992)

Defending Billy Ryan

a Jerry Kennedy novel

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An edition of Defending Billy Ryan (1992)

Defending Billy Ryan

a Jerry Kennedy novel

Twelve years ago Jerry Kennedy delivered his first report, Kennedy for the Defense, on being the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston, as Mack, his then-wife, called him. Seven years ago, Jerry called in again, with Penance for Jerry Kennedy. After that, things only got worse. Much worse. But in this latest dispatch, we learn that Jerry is digging himself out of a big hole, defending Billy Ryan - the longtime commissioner of Public Works has cut one shady deal too many.

Battered Boston lawyers, like bargain diamonds, don't look so hot under strong white light - especially decades after they were newly cut and mounted. Though Jerry, brighter than most defense attorneys, has lost some of his luster, he knows enough to depend on friends - especially Bad-eye Mulvey, Cadillac Teddy, and one he didn't know he had: a heavy-hitter named Carlo.

Jerry Kennedy also knows that the government can always get a public official if it really wants to - a situation made easier when a plea-bargaining crooked state legislator (Public Works Committee, natch) named Jack Bonaventre is in good voice. So Jerry digs in, looking hard for that edge to discredit the prosecution. The drama that follows in and around the Suffolk County Superior Court is vintage Higgins - the sort of stylish prose that prompted the London Sunday Times to say: "It used to be Henry James's town, now George V.

Higgins has taken over Boston."

Publish Date
Publisher
Warner
Language
English

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Defending Billy Ryan: Library Edition
August 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio CD in English - Unabridged edition
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Defending Billy Ryan: Library Edition
August 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
MP3 CD in English - MP3 Una edition
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Defending Billy Ryan
December 1997, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio cassette in English - UNABRIDGED edition
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Defending Billy Ryan: a Jerry Kennedy novel
1994, Warner
in English
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Defending Billy Ryan
June 1993, G K Hall Audio Books
Audio cassette in English
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Defending Billy Ryan
1993, Little, Brown
in English
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Defending Billy Ryan: a Jerry Kennedy novel
1992, H. Holt
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 v. ;

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17269606M
Internet Archive
defendingbillyry00higg
ISBN 10
0751500348
OCLC/WorldCat
30738337
Library Thing
1476341

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