About The Badger Game by Norman Shabel
A mutilated body was found by two young hunters…frozen… and slashed viciously with a knife. Part of the face was eaten away. Horace Badger, the dean of men at the nearby at Reliance College had been murdered. But why so brutally? And by whom
Stosh Klewzewski, the cruel leader of the violent Catholic White Knights is charged with the murder. But did he do it? Defense attorney Paul Flaherty and his legal assistant, law student Sam Waterman, have the job of proving his innocence – even if they have questions about it themselves.
From the battlefields and horrors of WWII, to the courtrooms, politics, and sexual abuse scandals of the Catholic church in 1950’s Pennsylvania, Norman Shabel has written a gripping, suspenseful story that’s hard to put down until the shocking end.
Just as compelling as his first novel, ‘God Knows No Heroes’, with a 4.4 rating on Amazon, The Badger Game’ is sure to be a hit with anyone who loves a good murder mystery and courtroom drama.
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Author Bio:
Brooklyn-born, successful New Jersey class-action attorney turned author Norman Shabel has been driven to write ever since he can remember. By the time he was in his twenties he had written several novels that ended up stuffed in drawers as he launched his legal career, married and had a family.
To date Norman has written 7 plays and 8 novels, some written in long-hand, hunched over his desk while waiting for a jury verdict to come in and all dealing with either crime, relatable family dynamics or both.
“Courts are inherently dramatic places, and I guess I saw that connection between law and theater before I even realized it,” Norman said recently. His earnest belief is that lawyers need to be good storytellers to engage juries in the “plot” of a case. “You need to hold the interest of a jury if you’re going to win them over, much like the arc of a play or the plot of a novel. If the juror or the reader or audience member gets bored you lose them very quickly. If you don’t capture them in the first 20 minutes you may as well go home – and I never like to lose a case or an audience.”
To date, three of Norman’s plays have been produced off Broadway in NYC, Philadelphia and multiple theaters in South Florida, where he now resides for part of the year. The productions have received wonderful reviews and there are plans underway for one of the plays, 'A Class Act' to be produced in London in the first quarter of 2024.
Norman’s novels are mostly “terrific, fast-paced reads about the dark side of law enforcement and the judiciary” according to Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. He writes, as only an experienced trial lawyer can, about the ups and downs of the legal system, maintaining the drama of the story without sacrificing the realities of the of the structure.
According to Norman, “I’m doing two things that both give my life meaning, I’m a very fortunate man.”