Torres is a bright and witty guy. He's a local Judicial legend here in the Bronx. I've actually seen him a few local restaurants, but not lately. I think he may have retired from the bench. Both of his Carlito Brigante novels were well written, with great dialogue. They're out of print and hard to find, but I'm sure you can pick them up online.

He also wrote the novel "Q&A," which was adapted into a pretty good film, directed by the great Sidney Lumet back in 1990. Timothy Hutton and Nick Nolte were both pretty good, and Armand Assante had a pretty good turn as a Puerto Rican gangster. But Puerto Rican or Italian, Assante's gangsters seem almost all the same to me. It seems as if he's just playing Armand Assante. That's not really a bad thing, it just doesn't show much range on his part.