<B ><I >New York Times</I> bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum takes legal suspense to dramatic new heights&#8212;when his hero, District Attorney Butch Karp, goes up against a ruthless union leader with too much power, too many secrets, and too many enemies to silence . . . or kill. </B><BR> <BR>Prizefighter tough. Street-hustler smart. Pit-bull vicious. Longshoremen&#8217;s union leader Charlie Vitteli is like a cold-blooded villain straight out of Shakespeare&#8217;s <I >Macbeth</I>. Busting heads on the docks of New York as a brash union organizer, taking no prisoners as the newest president of the North Ameri&#173;can Brotherhood of Stevedores, Vitteli clawed his way to the top of the heap&#8212;and no one&#8217;s going to take him down now. Not if they value their lives. <BR> <BR>Like Vince Carlotta. The union boss&#8217;s fiercest rival has accused Vitteli of embezzlement, election rigging, and other abuses&#8212;and even called him a crook at a union meeting. Now Carlotta is just another corpse on the waterfront&#8212;allegedly gunned down by an armed robber. It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out that Vitteli is somehow involved. But proving it is a whole other story. <BR> <BR>Enter District Attorney Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi. Drawn into the case by a friend who manages the East Village Women&#8217;s Shelter, Marlene speaks to the abused girlfriend of a man who may or may not have been hired to kill Carlotta. Marlene follows her lead to three different assassins contracted for the hit. But connecting them to Vitteli&#8212;and proving it in court&#8212;could be the death of anyone who tries . . . unless Karp can uncover the one tragic flaw that could bring down the curtain on this Shakespearean villain once and for all. <BR> <BR>Packed with ingenious twists, diabolical turns, and shocking revelations, <I >Tragic</I> is Robert K. Tanenbaum at his page-turning best.