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About the author

    

Prior to writing humorous satirical novels, Jere Krakoff was a civil rights attorney.  He practiced with the ACLU National Prison Project in Washington, D.C., the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Mississippi, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project headquartered in Philadelphia, and Neighborhood Legal Services Association, a legal aid program in Pittsburgh.

 

His first book, Something Is Rotten in Fettig (Anaphora), lampoons the criminal justice system of a fictitious Republic.  

 

His second, The Chameleon Shuffle (Open Books), casts a critical eye on the same Republic’s High Court. 

 

His third, Legs Feldman (All Things That Matter Press), climaxes in a zany trial of the novel's protagonist.

 

All three novels were inspired by people, places, and events he observed while litigating and a lifetime of witnessing some of the best and worst of the human condition.

My Books
Legs Feldman book cover

Legs Feldman

The Chameleon Shuffle book cover

The Chameleon Shuffle

Something is Rotten in Fettig book cover

Something Is Rotten in Fettig

My Books
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Inside the books

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Legs Feldman
 

Chapter 1

The Chameleon Shuffle

Chapter 1

Something Is Rotten in Fettig

Chapter 1

Selected Caricatures

from Three Novels by Jere Krakoff

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IN THE PRESS

The Chameleon Shuffle

"... a thought-provoking satire on the two extreme threads that underpin most democratic legal systems: conservatism and liberalism."
The Law Society Gazette

   Something Is Rotten in Fettig

"... a wonderful, whimsical parody of an absurd criminal justice system in a strange nation...populated by colorful characters with outlandish names. It is a fast-moving legal satire..." 

-New York Journal of Books

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