The Inglorious Arts: An Alec Brno Novel

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Seasoned New York lawyer Alec Brno, first introduced in Pardon the Ravens, is tested again by overlapping personal and professional crises. Early on, hes asked to rescue his firms oldest client, who is being sued vindictively by a giant public utility, as well as the firms largest client, embroiled in a politically motivated suit before a lunatic federal judge. To avoid crippling results, and the loss of more than 200,000 jobs, Alec must somehow get rid of both cases almost immediately and stop thousands of others from suing.

This seemingly impossible assignment arrives as Alecs adopted sixteen-year-old daughter, the inheritor of a Mafia fortune, is targeted in a sex-slave scheme by her uncle, the capo famiglia. Distractions only intensify when Alecs beautiful sister-in-law, who arrives from Dublin, looking and acting so much like his deceased wife, becomes a board piece in the Mob game. The Inglorious Arts follows Alecs heroics as he deals with corporate intrigues, political maneuvering, two high-stakes courtroom battles, Mob terror, and the frantic race to save the lives of the women he loves.

Reviews

"Alec Brno is a magician whose specialty is making cases disappear... [A] well-executed legal thriller."
Booklist

"Hruskas lively follow-up to 2015s Pardon the Ravens amps up the previous books mix of legal and Mafia shenanigans.... The fast pacing and frequent threats, legal and otherwise, keep it on course."
Publishers Weekly

Praise for Alan Hruskas Thrillers

"Beautifully written and beautifully imagined. [M]ight be the best psychological suspense youll read this yearor this decade..
Lee Child, author of the New York Timesbestselling Jack Reacher novels

Mr. Hruskahimself a former lawyeris at his thriller-writing best.
Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

As good as the best offerings of Turow, Grisham, and other legal-thriller hitmakers.
Booklist

Its like some excellent Hitchcock39 Steps, North by Northwest.
Kirkus Reviews

"Alan Hruska brings it allsounds, smells, tastes, and attitudeto life with passion."
Cara Black, author of the New York Timesbestselling Aime Leduc series

An erudite legal thriller.
Library Journal

Grabs readers and leaves them hanging on for dear lifeexcellent dialogue and nonstop action.
Suspense Magazine

Author Bio

Alan Hruska is the author of the novels Wrong Man Running, Pardon the Ravens, It Happened at Two in the Morning, the writer of several plays produced in New York and London, and the writer and director of the films Reunion, The Warrior Class, and, most recently, The Man on Her Mind. A New York native and a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, he is a former trial lawyer who was involved in the some of the most significant litigation of the last half of the twentieth century. The Inglorious Arts is his fifth novel.