I wanted to like it, but I could never really finish it, so I couldn't review it on my site.

I can't write the review without a star rating, so I'm adding a general 3 stars. But again, I didn't finish the book.

I read this series in all the wrong ways - the first book read was number 12 - I went back to #1 and found that I liked the characters as well as the setting and background so I continued. Then I realized that these books were set in the 70's, I thought, this is going to be so dated and hard to get by without computer and cell phones but I was very much surprised.

The story is so well-written that I never thought about how there were no cellphones and the areas where there were "computer printouts" only made me laugh reminding me of the early days of computers. What really startled me was the date and action of the story 9/10/76 about the hijacking of a plane. Was it prophetic, I don't think so, just eerily chilling.

I'm ready for my next trip back to the 70's already. I love a good dose of justice!

I've long been a fan of Robert K. Tanenbaum's excellent legal thriller series starring Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, but somehow missed the early books in the series. Just devoured the first 3 as ebooks - No Lesser Plea, Depraved Indifference and Immoral Certainty.

We learn in these early books how their relationship developed and how fiery Marlene lost her eye. In Depraved Indifference, Butch and Marlene seek justice for an NYPD bomb squad officer, who's killed by a booby-trapped bomb set by Croatian terrorists. But people in high places (the NY Catholic Archdiocese, the police department, the FBI and CIA) all seem to be protecting the terrorist leader - why?

In this book, I felt that the storyline was better. However, it suffered from too many characters. There is such a thing as too many. Too many characters introduced in the beginning with no downtime to digest all of the many characters. I agree with another reader that the voices all started to sound the same.

Yet, I found Marlene to be a nice strong voice. Her and Karp's relationship helped added relief to the story. In addition, Marlene is probably the only person that can get Karp to loosen up as well as become the boss. While, Marlene is strong and smart, she has a bit of a fun girly side to her as well. Nothing wrong with a princess bed and dresses and heels.

The part that I didn't like the most about this whole book is that by the half way point, neither I or Karp were any closer to learning a motive for the hijacking. At this point I jumped ahead several chapters to speed the story along. Yet, it was kind of too late as I was disinterested and found the ending alright.