{"product_id":"tragic","title":"Tragic","description":"Description for TRAGIC by Robert K Tanenbaum: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nPrizefighter tough. Street-hustler smart. Pit-bull vicious. Longshoremen’s union leader Charlie Vitteli is like a cold-blooded villain straight out of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Busting heads on the docks of New York as a brash union organizer, taking no prisoners as the newest president of the North Ameri­can Brotherhood of Stevedores, Vitteli clawed his way to the top of the heap -- and no one’s going to take him down now. Not if they value their lives. \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nLike Vince Carlotta. The union boss’s fiercest rival has accused Vitteli of embezzlement, election rigging, and other abuses -- and even called him a crook at a union meeting. Now Carlotta is just another corpse on the waterfront -- allegedly gunned down by an armed robber. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Vitteli is somehow involved. But proving it is a whole other story. \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nEnter District Attorney Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi. Drawn into the case by a friend who manages the East Village Women’s Shelter, Marlene speaks to the abused girlfriend of a man who may or may not have been hired to kill Carlotta. Marlene follows her lead to three different assassins contracted for the hit. But connecting them to Vitteli -- and proving it in court -- could be the death of anyone who tries . . . unless Karp can uncover the one tragic flaw that could bring down the curtain on this Shakespearean villain once and for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nThis is #25 in A Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955968184536,"sku":"9781451635553","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/Tragic635553.jpg?v=1655026709","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/tragic","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}