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From prosecuting (and defending) murderers in the Bronx to handling
the public and private problems of Manhattan's elite, "Mouthpiece"
recounts the colorful adventures of New York City's ultimate legal
operator.
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"In the pages before us, the Counselor tells a saga's worth of
tales of the city. As the saying goes, he's got a million of them."
"--"Tom Wolfe, from his Introduction
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Edward Hayes is that unusual combination: the likable lawyer, one
who could have stepped off the stages of "Guys and Dolls" or
"Chicago." "Mouthpiece" is his story--an irreverent, entertaining,
and revealing look at the practice of law in modern times and a
social and political anatomy of New York City. It recounts Hayes's
childhood in the tough Irish sections of Queens and his eventual
escape to the University of Virginia and then to Columbia Law
School. Not at all white-shoe-firm material, Hayes headed to the
hair-raising, crime-ridden South Bronx of the midseventies--first
as a homicide prosecutor and then as a defense attorney seeking to
free the same sort of people he formerly had put in jail.
Tom Wolfe immortalized this setting in "The Bonfire of the
Vanities." Ed Hayes was his guide, and he served as the model for
the scrappy defense lawyer Tommy Killian. Eventually, Hayes moved
his practice to Manhattan, using his neighborhood white boy
instincts and connections and the rough-and-tumble techniques
learned in the Bronx on behalf of the rich and powerful and famous.
From a high-stakes legal shootout over the Andy Warhol estate to
working to secure financial justice for the families of the World
Trade Center victims, Hayes has been behind the scenes of how New
York City really operates.
For the tens of millions fascinated by New York's unique blend of
glitter and grime, of idealism and corruption, of avarice and
ambition, "Mouthpiece" provides the ultimate close-up of
high-stakes Gotham gamesmanship.
"It's like having a new Brian De Palma picture." - Martin Scorsese,
Academy Award-winning director FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SCARFACE AND
DRESSED TO KILL... A FEMALE REVENGE STORY When the beautiful young
videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers
should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger
man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter
Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of one
troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn out to
be? Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris,
18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation and budding career are
on the line. But what she doesn't realize is that her life might be
as well...
“It’s like having a new Brian De Palma picture. – Martin Scorsese,
Academy Award-winning director
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SCARFACE AND DRESSED TO KILL --
A FEMALE REVENGE STORY
When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign,
Senator Lee Rogers should’ve known better. But saying no would have
taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust
libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator’s fixer. He’s already gotten
rid of one troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn
out to be?
Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny
Cours knows her reputation and budding career are on the line. But what
she doesn’t realize is that her life might be as well…
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