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| | Undue Influence by Steven Paul Martini, ISBN: 0515120723 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | On her deathbed, Nikki made Paul promise to look after her younger sister, Laurel Vega, who is mired in a bitter child-custody battle with her ex-husband, a powerful state senator. |
 | | If Martini were Balzac, he would have given us a two hundred page introduction on the social mores which make the rest possible - being Martini, he is content to insert a short paragraph here and there, as on Danny's latch-key lifestyle and its origins in the American way of life. |
 | | As always, though, Martini is at his very best in the courtroom, where the jousting and the sniping are beautifully rendered - even if they are, as he says here and elsewhere, as part of the same social commentary - no substitute for justice. |
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