William Bernhardt
1) Murder one
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2001
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When Ben Kincaid gets an accused cop-killer off the hook, the police declare a vendetta It is one of the most gruesome murders Oklahoma has ever seen. A horribly mutilated man is found chained to a statue in the middle of downtown Tulsa, secured so tightly that it takes the police hours to get him down. As the city's workforce stares, the police realize something terrible: The victim is one of their own. They arrest the dead cop's girlfriend, a...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1994
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While fly-fishing in Arkansas, Ben Kincaid lands an indefensible racist for a client For Ben Kincaid, the forests of Arkansas are a place to escape the hubbub of the courtroom and enjoy the outdoors. But for the thousands of Vietnamese refugees who came through this backwoods area in the mid-1970s, the Ouachita Mountains were a place to begin their new life in the United States. And for Tommy Vuong, an activist among the American-born Vietnamese,...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2000
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The children of Tulsa are dying, and only Ben Kincaid can bring them justice Leukemia is a terrible disease but also, thankfully, a rare one. So why have eleven children from a suburb outside of Tulsa have perished from this horrible illness in the last few years? The children's parents blame Blaylock Industrial, a massive corporation whose factory lies just outside of their bucolic small town, but they have no proof beyond gut instinctand the terrible...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998
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Retired from law, Ben Kincaid is forced to return to the bar when a caseand a corpsefall in his lap After years of struggling, Ben Kincaid shuts down his small legal office and decides to make a living doing something thatcompared to practicing law in Tulsais easy money: playing jazz piano. He buys a minivan to haul his gear, and gets steady gigs playing in a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. His new career is just starting to take off when a body...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Handed a rotten case, a lawyer will risk his life to uncover the truth A young woman is abducted by six men, beaten, raped, and left for dead. She can only identify one of her assailants: Al Moroconi, a tough guy whose links to the attack are only circumstantial. And when Moroconi's first lawyer is brutally murdered, the court appoints Travis Byrne, an ex-cop turned attorney, to defend him. In a lifetime of bad breaks, this will prove the worst piece...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1996
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A ten-year-old case puts Ben Kincaid on a collision course with a serial murderer Ben Kincaid's air-conditioner is on the fritz, his staff is on half-pay, and his sister has just disappeared, leaving him holding her baby. He needs fast money, and a quick-and-dirty personal injury suit could do the job. But what looks like a sure-fire case turns out to be something far more complicated. His prospective client hopes to rescue his son-a twenty-eight-year-old...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1998
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On Christmas Eve, a lawyer helps a battered wife search for her kidnapped son As ex-husbands go, they don't get much worse than Carl. He's violent, drunken, and possessiveand worst of all, he's an ex-cop. Bonnie has remarried, and done everything she can to keep their son away from his father, but when Carl comes to terrorize themstinking drunk on Christmas Eveshe cannot call the cops for help. After years of living in fear, she visits a legal aid...
8) Dark justice
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999
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Ben Kincaid falls in with a gang of eco-terrorists, and joins their fight against corrupt loggers The trouble all begins when Ben Kincaid meets Margery. Kincaid is a lawyer on a book tour, at a poorly attended signing in Washington state, and she is the bookseller's cat. When he learns that the perfectly healthy cat is to be euthanized, Kincaid breaks into the bookstore, planning a rescue. Instead, he lands himself in jail, where he learns of a non-feline...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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When a malevolent foreign dictator hacks into the U.S. nuclear defense system, the president comes under fire. With the clock winding down, lawyer Ben Kincaid has precious little time to defend the president. While Kincaid faces the trial of his life, legendary CIA agent Seamus McKay races through the clogged streets of Washington, searching for a hidden command center--guarded by murderous fanatics--that now controls U.S. ballistic missiles.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
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In the 1930s Eliot Ness, the famous treasury agent who helped convict Al Capone, accepts a high-ranking public safety position in Cleveland, where the discovery of a dismembered torso soon plunges the city into a state of terror. As the body count rises, Ness pours more energy and manpower into his investigation, desperately trying to live up to his larger-than-life reputation.