The Right to Remain Silent Author:Charles Brandt A former state chief prosecutor, Charles Brandt draws on his considerable experience of cops and courtrooms in this absorbing first novel. Set in Wilmington, Delaware - hardly the sleepy city Metroliner riders suspect it is - The Right to Remain Silent is told through the voice of Lou Razzi, a wisecracking, clean-as-a-whistle cop who was on his ... more »way up...until a frame put him in jail for two years and forced him to leave the country.
Fifteen years later, an exonerated, more hardened Razzi comes back to serve a single day on the force and claim his honorary pension. But that one day becomes a continuing education when Razzi is drawn into an enormous conspireacy and finds his old strong-arm tactics fruitless in the wake of the Miranda decision. Taking the intimate counsel of a young assistant DA, Honey Gold, Lou is brought up to date about new laws and life-styles...and is able to combat the powers that framed him then and thrive now in the new era of police procedure. Authentic and seasoned with humor, The Right to Remain Silent is an entertaining thriller as well as a candid assessment of the emerging gap between crime and the possibility of punishment.« less