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The Burden of Persuasion de Anna Faktorovich
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The Burden of Persuasion (edição: 2017)

de Anna Faktorovich (Autor), Anna Faktorovich (Designer)

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The trauma of retiring early forces FBI Special Agent B. Clare Ryan to conduct an unsanctioned investigation into one of her first cases for the Bureau back in 1988. After an unfavorable verdict that was the culmination of eight years of litigation over claims of sexual harassment of Ida Callaghan by the management at the Bedford Bank in Manhattan, her father, Bradley, shot the judge over the case, Vincente Brunetti, to death at his suburban residence before committing suicide. The case is outrageous enough on its own, but Ryan is more interested in why her supervisor at the FBI forbade her from investigating it and destroyed the suicide note that Bradley left behind. This clue leads her to a diary that accuses many powerful men in New York of corruption. Now in 2013, the trail might be cold, but Ryan digs up ancient records and does everything possible, including breaking into private vaults and morgues to get to the truth, which turns out to be more explosive than she predicted. Ryan reproduces original diaries, notes, letters, police reports and other documents that finally sufficiently prove the case that both Bradley and his daughter lost. Ryan takes on the burden of persuasion and brings this case to the public at large, hiding under the veil of fiction what she cannot expose in the court of law. What was the connection between this federal Judge and a major bank like Bedford? What drove Bradley to homicide instead of another appeal? Why were there five hundred sparkling-new, but unused, Bronx-made Vachengrais autos parked outside Bradley's precinct in 1969? What was Bradley's boyhood friend, Terry, who later became the Chief of NYPD, doing on a military base in East Germany in 1955 that sent everybody in this story on a violent collision course? This mystery begins after the whodunit is long solved. Only hidden personal confessions can display what corruption has obstructed from the eyes of justice.… (mais)
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Título:The Burden of Persuasion
Autores:Anna Faktorovich (Autor)
Outros autores:Anna Faktorovich (Designer)
Informação:Anaphora Literary Press (2017), 250 pages
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I was grabbed by the story in this book, maybe sometimes there´s much information in some issues but the story is quite interesting. If you think that sexual harassment is an issue now a days, you´ll find this novel revealing, besides all the enterprise corruption. This story is based on a true story. I like police series, this is a very intense investigation of a case that happened in the 60s. So, I you like detective stories, you´ll enjoye this one. ( )
  elicarra | Sep 15, 2017 |
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I very rarely stumble across a book that I just did not care that much for, but this book is one of them. This review is based on an advance copy. The book is based on the Carolee Koster case of the woman who worked at Chase Manhatten in the 1970s and sued throughout the 1980s for sexual harassment and equal pay. She lost appeal after appeal until it got to Judge Richard Doronco who also turned her down, but this time, her father, a retired cop, Charles had had enough and shot him dead in his home and then turned the gun on himself. The author imagines a back story to go with the bare facts of the case.

In this book, an FBI agent is on the fringes of the judge's shooting, but there's nothing to investigate since the killer took his life. She does, however, find a note in his shoe that indicates a diary is located in his trailer. She uncovers it and makes copies of it to read from before turning the note and the diary over to her boss. The next thing she knows the note and the diary are gone. The more she reads of the diary the more she understands why that happened as it is about corruption in the law enforcement ranks and politics. She decides to hold onto the diary and research it all she can and to turn it into a fictional book to be published when she leaves the bureau.

Part of her research involves going to the library and part of it involves breaking into people's houses and making copies of their diaries. Yes, you have to suspend quite a bit of belief to believe that these many people kept diaries. But it was the only way the author could feasibly move the story along the way she had written it so I was able to make that leap. She collects diaries from Ida Callaghan, the one who sued for sexual harassment, Lorcan Whelan, the president of the bank where the harassment took place, and Judge Vincente Brunetti, the judge of her case who was killed.

It seems that the bank was involved with some corruption that involved the cops and politicians that Ida's dad stumbled onto when he was a cop but wasn't able to shut down, which is where Ida comes along in that she probably uncovered something and had to be gotten rid of before the house of cards comes tumbling down.

You get the distinct feeling that the author does not like men as there are no sympathetic male characters in the book. Even Bradley Callaghan, the cop father who shoots the judge is not all that likable. He's set up to be this perfect cop who can't get ahead because he didn't go to college or the military or play the corruption game. He's even forced off the job because he digs his nose in where it doesn't belong. The rest of the men are sleazeballs and crooks most of whom believe in sexually harassing women. She is also against marriage and goes off on a long tirade against it and has not one married couple in her book happy, including Ida's parents. This isn't a realistic look at the world and while this is fiction, fiction does mirror society and men are complex creatures just as women are. Ida is no saint in this book, either. To be honest I'd never heard of the Chase Manhatten case before and this book really educated me on its story by making me look up the particulars. It also educated me on how bad things were and are today with sexual harassment cases and how hard it is to win one. While the writing is good, I just think the author could have done a better job getting her story across. ( )
  nicolewbrown | Aug 28, 2017 |
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This is the story of a retired FBI agent investigating a case that she originally was told not to look into when she first started her career with the FBI. It covers an incident through various viewpoints.
I found I never really got into this story. None of the characters drew me in and the story did not leave me wanting more. ( )
  Shoosty | Jul 1, 2017 |
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This is the fourth book from the Anaphora Literary Press that I have reviewed and as with the others, it has been well edited with fluent writing and easy to read. This intricate but absorbing legal story of corruption even into the justice system does not follow the average pattern and requires the reader’s concentration but is most rewarding. I found the book hard to put down, if only for a tea/coffee break. I thoroughly appreciated each chapter as it was portrayed through the eyes of FBI agent Ryan, Bradley & Ida Callaghan, Lorcan Whelan & Judge Brunetti, even though Ida’s chapter on her sexual harassment I found rather raw and explicit. Nevertheless, I understand the need to emphasize this in the overall context of the book and it receives 4 stars from me. 25 June 2017. ( )
1 vote Kintra | Jun 25, 2017 |
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this is an extraordinary book - its combination of levels from the publisher indicating that a (perhaps) fictional former FBI agent uncovered diaries of the perpetrator of a crime (killing the judge in his daughter's harrassment trial) and then also finding the daughter Ida's first hand account - all interwoven with discussion of harrassment and bad treatment (in the FBI too) of women, treated as secondhand citizens - even when we read the judge's notes to his wife as she worked up his opinion for him - she too sees that the judgement/opinion he has evolved against the victim is flawed - but he is too lazy to alter it, or bring real thgt to bear on it - and she caves (she also scrubs the floor, insisting piously that she ought to) ... the underlying anger - acted out by an enraged father - bristles throughout the compelling story of her search into the crime that got away from her in the early days of her career - this is a terrific book, and deserves good attention. ( )
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The trauma of retiring early forces FBI Special Agent B. Clare Ryan to conduct an unsanctioned investigation into one of her first cases for the Bureau back in 1988. After an unfavorable verdict that was the culmination of eight years of litigation over claims of sexual harassment of Ida Callaghan by the management at the Bedford Bank in Manhattan, her father, Bradley, shot the judge over the case, Vincente Brunetti, to death at his suburban residence before committing suicide. The case is outrageous enough on its own, but Ryan is more interested in why her supervisor at the FBI forbade her from investigating it and destroyed the suicide note that Bradley left behind. This clue leads her to a diary that accuses many powerful men in New York of corruption. Now in 2013, the trail might be cold, but Ryan digs up ancient records and does everything possible, including breaking into private vaults and morgues to get to the truth, which turns out to be more explosive than she predicted. Ryan reproduces original diaries, notes, letters, police reports and other documents that finally sufficiently prove the case that both Bradley and his daughter lost. Ryan takes on the burden of persuasion and brings this case to the public at large, hiding under the veil of fiction what she cannot expose in the court of law. What was the connection between this federal Judge and a major bank like Bedford? What drove Bradley to homicide instead of another appeal? Why were there five hundred sparkling-new, but unused, Bronx-made Vachengrais autos parked outside Bradley's precinct in 1969? What was Bradley's boyhood friend, Terry, who later became the Chief of NYPD, doing on a military base in East Germany in 1955 that sent everybody in this story on a violent collision course? This mystery begins after the whodunit is long solved. Only hidden personal confessions can display what corruption has obstructed from the eyes of justice.

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