Hasdai in the Golden Age of Al-Andalus: A Historical Novel
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David Magen, a semiretired lawyer, takes on the case of Carmen, a sixteen-year-old charged with prostitution. As the investigation unfolds, he and Carmen encounter corruption in the court system, in the police force, and are drawn into a web of conspiracy on conspiracy. Carmen's street smarts and Magen's long legal experience help them weave them through a maze of corrupt characters in Philadelphia as buried evidence crops up at each turn.
Hasdai Shaprut is a renown Jewish doctor in tenth century Spain (Andalus), but he is also a trusted adviser to the Caliph who rules Southern Spain and his chief diplomats. He such, Hasdai weaves his way through many plots and intrigues in the service of the Caliph.
Attorney Peter Stern gets a new client, Avery Witherspoon, a DJ who sells drugs at the raves near the UPenn Campus. It seems that Avery was in a shootout over a dispute with his drugs suppliers. The drug gang approaches Stern and pays him a handsome fee not to cooperate with the DA but to go to trial - one he will lose because of the overwhelming evidence against him. The rival drug gang offers the same fee and valuable evidence to cooperate and put the other gang out of business. Avery refuses to help him in the investigation. Although from a wealthy society background, Avery's own dissolute lifestyle leads Stern in many directions.
Joseph Jacobson an aspiring young lawyer in a prominent law firm arrested for the crime of embezzlement, a crime he did not commit, abandoned by his friends and law firm, he must find solace and help as he languished in prison.