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Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients--how much is in their bank accounts, what kind of sex their spouses like, if they married for money or power, and who cheated with whom. For the first time in his long career, Nissenbaum gives the lowdown on all the antics he's experienced in dealing with clients who have money to burn. From a C-note hooker-turned-trophy-wife who put her dying husband into a nursing home and drained his bank accounts, to the dad who spent millions to recover the kids his wife kidnapped, this memoir is by turns dark, cathartic, vengeful, and hilarious as it describes the high-end, high-conflict divorces that ruin the lives of everyone involved. Currently commanding $700 per hour, Nissenbaum sees firsthand how neurotic, unrealistic, status-hungry, manipulative, and sex-crazed his multimillion-dollar clients can be. In the style of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, Nissenbaum and John Sedgwick blow the doors off the dark side of marriage, making this outrageous and compelling memoir a truly guilty pleasure.

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"The Kitchen Confidential of divorce---a deliciously gossipy, scandal-filled, insider's view of the high-stakes, big-money world we rarely get to see.-- ""Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Vanished"" ""An exuberant expose that shuns cynicism in favor of bemusement, empathy, and a giddy celebration of man's tenacity and capacity for folly."" -- ""Molly Abott, Edgar Award-winning author of Queenpin"" ""The Kitchen Confidential of divorce--a deliciously gossipy, scandal-filled, insider's view of the high-stakes, big-money world we rarely get to see."" -- ""Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Vanished"""

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Gerald Nissenbaum, J.D., has been a practicing trial lawyer and family law attorney since 1967. Named one of the best lawyers in America by Town and Country, as well as a top ten divorce attorney by Worth, Nissenbaum serves on the executive committee of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers. A former president of both the International and American Academies of Matrimonial Lawyers, he also writes a weekly column for the Boston Herald and has a private practice in Boston, Massachusetts. John Sedgwick is the critically acclaimed author of the novels The Dark House and The Education of Mrs. Bemis, as well as three works of narrative nonfiction and the multigenerational family memoir In My Blood. He has written for GQ, Atlantic Monthly, and Newsweek, and he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

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