Thomas Benigno is a legal thriller author best known for the writing of the Good Layer series of novels. Benigno is a practicing lawyer that graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is currently resident in Long Island, New York. He was one of the best lawyers ever to study law at Benjamin and proved his proficiency very early in his career when he was mad Associate Attorney at the recommendation of his New York Legal Aid Society Law Clinic Professor Barry Scheck. While he was an associate attorney, he took up some of the most complex, intricate, and high profile cases and was even the attorney for the infamous Spiderman Rapist. Asked why he took up cases that sometimes involved rapists and child molesters, he answered that
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Inspired by real life events of Thomas Benigno’s early career, the author portrays an insider’s perspective and knowledge of the workings of the defense system in New York. For anyone with a little knowledge of the legal system, the novels are like a walk through the courtroom filled with dedicated, overworked and productive staff who would do anything to ensure a successful conclusion to a case. Given Benigno’s experience as an attorney, he writes the novels in a casual manner even if the legal issues are sometimes intricate and complex. In highly intriguing stories, he paints a picture of 1970’s and 1980’s New York City, that can simply be described as hell on earth. The author paints a fascinating picture of the bad and good guys that makes a clear delineation of who the reader should like and who they should hate. His experience as a lawyer who worked on many similar cases in the Bronx gives the novels the authenticity that readers die for in any legal thriller. Packed with mysterious motivations, rape, murder, and a dash of romance, the unpredictable twists and turns make for one roller coaster of a …show more content…
Nick is a young ambitious lawyer determined to prove himself better than his father, who left the family while he was young. He also needs to show himself worthy of the mother that struggled to raise him despite the draw of mob life that he had grown up in. He works for a Bronx legal aid clinic and through his work has learned how to work the system ad has never lost a case. It is now 1982 and the most famous serial rapist nicknamed The Spiderman is abroad causing terror in NYC. When one of the Spiderman’s victims commits suicide, he is so outraged that he takes a complex case of a teacher’s aide awaiting trial accused of sexually assaulting three students. He believes his client is innocent and proceeds to poke holes in the prosecutor’s case. Things turn interesting when one of the children suddenly dies, making Nick believe that his stranger just may be connected to Spiderman, the serial rapist. But his investigations reveal that his family may have more to do with Spiderman than he could ever have imagined. His deepest fears may just be realized, as he faces the prospect of embracing his family’s murky past to become judge jury and executioner, or follow the legal channels that would risk his relationship with the woman he
Inspired by real life events of Thomas Benigno’s early career, the author portrays an insider’s perspective and knowledge of the workings of the defense system in New York. For anyone with a little knowledge of the legal system, the novels are like a walk through the courtroom filled with dedicated, overworked and productive staff who would do anything to ensure a successful conclusion to a case. Given Benigno’s experience as an attorney, he writes the novels in a casual manner even if the legal issues are sometimes intricate and complex. In highly intriguing stories, he paints a picture of 1970’s and 1980’s New York City, that can simply be described as hell on earth. The author paints a fascinating picture of the bad and good guys that makes a clear delineation of who the reader should like and who they should hate. His experience as a lawyer who worked on many similar cases in the Bronx gives the novels the authenticity that readers die for in any legal thriller. Packed with mysterious motivations, rape, murder, and a dash of romance, the unpredictable twists and turns make for one roller coaster of a …show more content…
Nick is a young ambitious lawyer determined to prove himself better than his father, who left the family while he was young. He also needs to show himself worthy of the mother that struggled to raise him despite the draw of mob life that he had grown up in. He works for a Bronx legal aid clinic and through his work has learned how to work the system ad has never lost a case. It is now 1982 and the most famous serial rapist nicknamed The Spiderman is abroad causing terror in NYC. When one of the Spiderman’s victims commits suicide, he is so outraged that he takes a complex case of a teacher’s aide awaiting trial accused of sexually assaulting three students. He believes his client is innocent and proceeds to poke holes in the prosecutor’s case. Things turn interesting when one of the children suddenly dies, making Nick believe that his stranger just may be connected to Spiderman, the serial rapist. But his investigations reveal that his family may have more to do with Spiderman than he could ever have imagined. His deepest fears may just be realized, as he faces the prospect of embracing his family’s murky past to become judge jury and executioner, or follow the legal channels that would risk his relationship with the woman he