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David Kessler has more free and bargain legal thrillers at Amazon. He was previously published in paper by Avon, Hodder, etc.

A Fool for a Client is free.

WHEN IT'S A MUSLIM, IT'S A TERRORIST.
WHEN IT'S AN IRISH NATIONALIST, IT'S A FREEDOM FIGHTER!

That at least was the attitude of the American judge who refused to extradite Sean Murphy to stand trial for planting a bomb in a London shopping mall that killed an Indian doctor and a three-year-old kid. Now Murphy is dead and 23-year-old American medical student Justine Levy is on trial in New York for his murder – conducting her own defense and resisting all offers of help from her young, black standby-counsel.

But the evidence is circumstantial and the beautiful but vulnerable Justine remains tight-lipped. Was she a vigilante or was it personal? Did she know the child or the Indian doctor? Is she guilty? For her lawyer it IS personal because he is falling for her.

But who will ultimately decide her fate? The jury? The ruthless gunman who has come to New York to kill her? Or another man who has come in pursuit of the gunman with a ruthlessness equal to that of Justine?

David Kessler’s first thriller doesn’t just excite and mystify, it also asks some tough questions about vigilante justice and the rights of the victim.

Also free is It started out quite simply. (Formerly titled No Way Out, so you may already have this as ATDrake posted it previously.)

Formerly NO WAY OUT

When Bethel Newton, a 19 year old white girl, accuses black TV talk-show host Elias Claymore of raping her, America is deeply divided. In his youth, Claymore was a Black power militant and convicted rapist who escaped from prison and fled to north Africa. But after undergoing a road-to-Damascus change, he came back to America to serve out his sentence, reinventing himself as a neoconservative, born-again Christian and pillar of the establishment.

Now, accused once again, publicly vilified and portrayed as a national pariah, Claymore turns to his friend Alex Sedaka for help. However Alex is pressured into sharing the defense with a law firm appointed by Claymore’s insurers and finds himself working with Andromeda (“Andi”) Phoenix, whose black lover Gene works at a rape crisis center. And when Andi makes an issue of the under-representation of African-Americans on the jury, she starts receiving anonymous threats and finds her lesbian relationship under an intense strain that stretches her divided loyalties to the limit.

Meanwhile Alex must battle his way through DNA evidence, jury tampering and malicious computer hacking. And while all this is going on, Alex’s on-again/off-again girlfriend - TV reporter Martine Yin - is covering the case and putting herself in danger...

The Other Victim is $.99.

In London’s glitzy West End, Tony Neuman, a gifted teenager, is stabbed in what appears to be a mugging. On a luxurious country estate, a lawyer with a chip on his shoulder, is asked to investigate the disappearance of billionaire Fabian Digby. But when Digby’s body turns up floating on the Grand union canal and police frogmen find Tony’s watch on the canal bed, Tony’s brother Phil comes under suspicion.

The link between the two deaths is Gold a perfume made by the company that Digby acquired just before his death. But Gold is no ordinary perfume… it seems to have addictive properties…

Checkmate at the Beauty Pageant (The Dov Shamir Adventures) is $.99.

FULLY REVISED AND RE-EDITED

When 32 beauty contestants are kidnapped in a military-style operation, it's a job for top Israeli intelligence officer Dov Shamir. The kidnapper – “Lee Chadwick” - has threatened to kill the girls unless former US and world chess champion Billy Segal can be persuaded to come out of retirement and play against a chess program that runs on the internet using the computers of those who are watching the games for "parallel computing."

But Segal has lost his nerve and so it is up to Shamir - who is also an international master of chess - to come up with a plan.

Meanwhile the girls are being pampered in a luxurious mansion on a large Caribbean island but warned not to try and escape. And those who do they find themselves coming up against a six foot three lesbian who delights flexing her muscles at their expense.

Will Dov and the girls be able to prevail? Will the combined efforts of the American, British and Israeli intelligence be able to locate where the girls are being held? And will they be able to overcome the heavily armed guards without getting the girls killed? But the most important question is who is the mysterious “Lee Chadwick” who never seems to appear but is pulling the strings and controlling things from behind the scenes? Could it be some one who has been out in the open all along?