Pleading Guilty (1993) (edit title/settings)

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• McCormack A. "Mack" Malloy: fiftyish ex-cop, almost ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane at Gage & Griswell (G&G) l, one of Kindle County's top-notch law firms. Mack is foul-mouthed, expansive, and sensual, weighed down by a profound familiarity with the, ways of the world and his own ineradicable weaknesses, yet blessed with an incorrigible black-Irish sense of humor. He carries secrets of his own and knows that, as the police are fond of saying, there are no victims.
• Emilia "Brushy" Bruccia: Mack's good friend and sometime bedmate
• Dr. Martin: G&G's managing partner--a sizable man, Martin, a wrestler at the U. three decades ago, a middleweight with a chest broad as the map of America. He has a dark, shrewd face, a little like those Mongol warriors of Genghis Khan's, and the venerable look of somebody who's mixed it up with life.
• Robert 'Bert' Kamin: Unorthodox partner at G&G
• George Washington 'Wash' Thale III: Principle at G&G
• Carl Pagnucci: born Carlo— is forty-two, the youngest of three, and stingy with words, a lawyer's lawyer who holds his own speech. He is a pale little guy with a mustache like one of those round brushes that comes with your electric shaver. In his perfect suits, somber and tasteful, with a flash of gold from his cufflinks, he reveals nothing.
• Glyndora Gaines: G&G staff supervisor in Accounting
• John Kenneth Galbraith: Senior Division Counsel for TransNational Air
• Vernon Koechell aka Archie: Bookie
• Kam Roberts: aka Orleans Gaines; referee; Bert's homosexual lover; son of Glyndora
• Nora Goggns: Mack's ex-wife
• Dewey Phelan: Kindle police officer
• Lyle Malloy: Mack's teen aged son
• Tad Krzysinski: TN's new CEO
• Lucinda: Mack's secretary
• Peter Neucriss: Corrupt attorney
• Lena: Add a description of this character.
• Angelo 'Toots' Nuccio: aka The Colonel; 83 year old attorney ot Zahn's
• Elaine: Mack's deceased sister
• Lucien
• Jorge
• Leotis Griswell: Late founder of G&G
• Gino Dimonte: Corrupt police officer aka 'Pigeyes'
• Jill Horwich: Nora's lesbian lover
• Judge Dan Shea: Judge in Toots' pocket

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• America
• Center City
• Hall
• Needle

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Preceded by Lasher , and followed by Like Water for Chocolate.

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1. Scott Turow (Author)

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