Tainted Evidence

When a heavily armed drug dealer and murder suspect, holed up in an abandoned tenement in Harlem, shoots five cops in a botched police raid, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has what appears to be a high-profile, open and shut case. Ignoring his politically ambitions chief assistant, the aging DA assigns it to Karen Henning, chief of the trials division, highest ranking woman in the office. Karen is smart, good looking, fiercely independent. She is also married and the mother of two, and she is forced now to cope with the DA’s thwarted chief assistant, with the advances of the handsome detective assigned to her, and with the all-consuming case which has turned out to be far more complicated than anyone suspected, and which now threatens both her marriage and her career.

"Mr. Daley understands politics from the White House to the Station house, and he understands even more acutely the politics of everyday life--of careerism and of love." --The New York Times

"Elegant...Daley engages the reader for pages on end...TAINTED EVIDENCE is a superbly written novel of erudition as well as a window on our times." --Houston Chronicle

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Filmed as NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN starring Tony Garcia and Lena Olin, directed by Sidney Lumet