Page-turning detective fiction from the author of I HEARD YOU PAINT
HOUSES / THE IRISHMAN who was himself a homicide investigator and
prosecutor.
Wisecracking cop Lou Razzi's zeal, dedication and talent for extracting
information from suspects make him destined to rise quickly through the
ranks . . . until a frame-up sends him to jail for two years. He loses
his career, his marriage, and his baby daughter, and following his
release from prison, he leaves the country for a sort of self-imposed
exile in Brazil.
Fifteen years later, an exonerated, more hardened Razzi comes back to
serve a single day on the force and claim his pension. But that one day
becomes a continuing education when Razzi is drawn onto a conspiracy and
finds his old police tools fruitless in the wake of the Miranda
decision. Forced to learn, like a rookie, from his mistakes, he starts
to find his way with the help of assistant district attorney Honey Gold.
. . and is able to combat the powers that framed him then and thrive now
in the new era of police procedure. When The Right to Remain Silent
was first published, then-President Ronald Reagan wrote Brandt an
unsolicited fan letter: "I commend your novel...for your forthright
stand on improving protection of law-abiding citizens."
The Right to Remain Silent is a novel written and to be read for
entertainment, but it also encourages study of the art of interrogation
and contains the line that 'confession is one of the necessities of
life, like food and shelter.' -- Charles Brandt from the Preface
