Linda Fairstein is one of Manhattan’s most celebrated District Attorneys. After being the Director of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for over thirty-five years, Fairstein now gives these tasks to her characters. In Fairstein's new book, Hell Gate, main character Alexandra Cooper thrives on being able to bring a little bit of justice to victims of violent and sexual crimes, as Fairstein herself once did.
Watch as Fairstein takes us inside her new book, Hell Gate (available March 2010).
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When the body of an ambitious congressman’s mistress is found dumped in the mayor’s well, Assistant DA Alex Cooper is distraught that she hadn’t been able to prevent the death in time. At the same time, something isn’t quite right about the case: a series of frantic phone calls for help had preceded the murder, but each time the police responded, the woman had denied having any made contact at all. As Alex starts to investigate the shady circumstances, she uncovers not only the depths of a sordid secret affair but also an illegitimate child, supposedly fathered by the politician.
The high profile case shocks New York society but soon pales against news of a tragic shipwreck off the Manhattan coast, a catastrophe that claims the lives of the human cargo on board. Desperate to get to safety, the illegal immigrants crammed into the hold try to make for the shore, only to be swept under by the dangerous riptides.
When Alex and her team are called to the gruesome scene, they discover a strange connection between the seemingly unrelated cases: a young woman who drowned in the wreck and the congressman's murdered lover share the same tattoo, an image that seems to be the brand of the mastermind behind the trafficking operation. Carefully picking apart the fragile link between the two victims, Alex finds much, much more than she bargained for: a dark link to New York’s powerful elite that will call into question all she ever believed in…
Fast-paced and compulsively gripping, Hell Gate is Alex Cooper’s most chilling case to date.
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