{"product_id":"9780374531775","title":"Convictions : A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eConvictions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): John Kroger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an Assistant United States Attorney, John Kroger pursued high-profile cases against mafia killers, drug kingpins, and Enron executives. In \u003ci\u003eConvictions\u003c\/i\u003e, Kroger reveals how to flip a perp, how to conduct a cross, how to work an informant, how to placate a hostile judge. Starting from his time as a green recruit and ending at the peak of his career, he steers us through the complexities and ethical dilemmas in the life of a prosecutor, where the battle in the courtroom is only the culmination of long and intricate investigative work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Engrossing . . . The best book about being a federal prosecutor since Jeffrey Toobin's \u003ci\u003eOpening Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eScott Turow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exhaustive and fair-minded . . . Kroger's assessment of the federal prosecutor's problematic, overly powerful role in the legal system is well rendered and crisply delivered.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A thoughtful, compulsively readable assessment of the American justice system's struggles with the greatest social evils of our time . . . [Kroger] accomplishes more in a few hundred pages than many professional journalists and legal scholars achieve in a thousand.” —\u003ci\u003eMatt Buckingham, Willamette Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have read dozens of books by and about prosecutors. Kroger's is one of the best.” —\u003ci\u003eSteve Weinberg, The Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The extraordinarily intimate account of a prosecutor's coming-of-age . . . Essential reading.” —\u003ci\u003eTerri Jentz, author of Strange Piece of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kroger wins here as he did in the courtroom--with simplicity and candor, passion and integrity, and a ferocious, persuasive intelligence.” —\u003ci\u003eSusan Choi, author of American Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374531775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40654227112142,"sku":"9780374531775","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_5a4be530-17ce-40d7-9bb9-8909ac198b95.jpg?v=1639363099","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374531775","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}