All the money in the world

Description:

What happens to a criminal defense attorney when his biggest client, a charming and seductive drug dealer, trades him in to the Feds? What happens to his college-age son when he tries to discover who's telling the truth? Robert Anthony Siegel's stunning first novel, All the Money in the World probes the dark underside of family and professional life, where morals are turned inside out. For thirty years, Louis Glasser has built his career defending thieves, con men, and drug pushers. In turn, he's risen from New York's teeming Lower East Side to a luxury apartment on Gramercy Park. But when he makes a Faustian bargain with marijuana dealer Brian Brianson, the price becomes more than he can afford. Lou is plunged into a lawyer's nightmare of government investigations, grand juries, and indictments, and he sees his world crumble about him. At the threshold of adulthood, his son, Jason, faces a morally ambiguous world in which no one can be trusted - least of all the father he's always admired and the drug dealer who's offered him a career in the "organization."

subjects: Fiction,  Drug traffic,  Fathers and sons,  Criminal law,  Lawyers,  Fathers and sons -- Fiction.,  Criminal law -- Fiction.,  Drug traffic -- Fiction.,  New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.,  New York Times reviewed

Places: New York (N.Y.)