Ernest Tidyman

This action-loaded drama set in New York City, about a naive rookie cop whose youthful idealism thrusts him into an interdepartmental power play with disastrous consequences.

"After a high profile case that put him in the headlines, private detective John Shaft is looking for something low profile and easy that will keep him out of the spotlight and out of danger. Shaft takes a missing person case that proves to be more difficult than he initially thought. At the same time, he is hired to be a consultant on a low budget film that may or may not be based on his life, and proves to be as dangerous as any job he's ever had. But when there's danger all about, John Shaft is the cat that won't cop out--even if it means squaring off against sadistic gangsters that want him dead"--Excerpt of summary from the book.

How could she resist a man who ate his peas? Any man who attempted to turn an interview into a seduction, then had the nerve to invite himself to dinner, deserved exactly what he got. Liv James couldn't help feeling that actor Joe Harrington, America's heartthrob, deserved a good dose of reality -- Liv's kind of reality. That included a hyperactive rabbit cavorting in the back of her van, a slightly charred casserole and, of course, the children. Five of them. If the casserole didn't poison him, the commotion would deafen him.... It must have been the novelty he loved, Liv decided. But as time passed and Joe began to talk of settling in Madison, Liv prayed the novelty would wear off before she got in too deep! Hero: Joe Harrington Heroine: Olivia "Liv" James

Reports on the trial of a young Black mute who was accused of murdering two prostitutes and defended by a deaf lawyer