We’re bringing writers and their books to you during our special annual series sponsored by the Friends of the Library. The best-selling author of mysteries featuring Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper talks about her latest book “Hell
Gate.” (60 min.) Preregister for tickets.
About the book:
New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and behind-the-scenes deals. In Hell Gate, Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that has contraband cargo-human cargo-and the political sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen from grace. When Alex discovers that a woman from the wreck and the congressman's lover have the same rose tattoo-the brand of a "snakehead", a master of a human trafficking operation-it dawns on her that these cases aren't as unrelated as they seem and that the entire political landscape of New York City could hang in the balance of her investigation. As Alex looks on at the nameless victims in the morgue, she realizes she's looking at the present-day face of New York's long, dark tradition of human trafficking-a tradition that began hundreds of years ago with slave trade from Africa, now a multimillion-dollar industry that will stop at no cost, even if that cost is Alex's life.
Linda Fairstein was a legal star for
many years before writing fiction. As
a prosecutor, she was instrumental in
getting rape laws changed in the state
of New York. Her first book, the nonfiction “Sexual Violence: Our War Against
Rape,” was a 1993 “New York Times” Notable Book of the Year. She has
since written a number of best-selling
crime novels including “Hell Gate,” her
latest mystery featuring Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Fairstein,
a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law,
also serves as a media consultant to CNN, MSNBC, and the network news
stations. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and on
Martha’s Vineyard.
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