Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People (audiobook, MP3)
By William Ury. Everyone knows that it is the give-and-take of negotiation that enables decisions to be made, problems to be solved, needs to be satisfied - in our professional as well as our personal lives. But where does that leave you when you confront someone who has no intention of negotiating fairly or in good faith? How can you find common ground when your opponent - an angry boss, an unreasonable client, a deceitful colleague, an insecure business partner, a stubborn spouse - refuses to give an inch? How, in short, can you get to "yes" when someone else says "no"?
Nina Reilly, local lawyer at Lake Tahoe hears all the gamblers stories - stories of their wins, divorces, bankruptcies and overdoses. Then one gambler is murdered, and suspicion falls on the winner of the biggest jackpot in Tahoe's history, Nina's client - a girl who won't tell anyone her name.
For a woman feeling a little heat of her own- navigating between a rich, available businessman, a married lawman with a waffling heart, and the sexy bluesman who is angling to become much more than her client, this case is taking dangerous twists.
"At midnight, in a secret medical clinic in Washington, D.C., two foreign doctors and their team are completing plastic surgery on an anonymous client who is changing the appearance of his face, among other things. After the procedure, the client begins to stir - and suddenly the operating room erupts in violence, and the clinic is ablaze."
One of mystery fiction's most enduring and affecting male buddy teams--San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy and police lieutenant Abe Glitsky--are back in Lescroart's newest thriller. Glitsky's been kicked upstairs (or sideways) to a desk job and warned off his usual homicide beat even though it's his father's best friend who's been murdered in a robbery-slaying, and it's Hardy's pal and client, John Holiday, who's been targeted as the killer. When two more killings follow, no one in the department believes that Hardy's client was set up.
