- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (2 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140286977
- ISBN-13: 978-0140286977
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 792,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Scott Turow has always pushed himself beyond the expectations of readers and critics. In Presumed Innocent (1987), he introduced fictional Kindle County and ushered in the era that spawned such mega-authors as John Grisham, Richard North Patterson and David Baldacci. In Personal Injuries, Turow continues to innovate on legal fiction, but his achievement this time is not gained through clever plot twists (though there are several) or intense legal action (though there is much of that too). The achievement of mastery this time is via exquisitely drawn, Faulknerian characters--attorney Robbie Feaver, agent Evon Miller, US Attorney Stan Sennett and Justice Brendan Tuohey--whose lives become the driving mystery at the core of the book.
The novel begins with Robbie Feaver seeking counsel from the narrator, attorney George Mason. For years, Feaver has been bribing several judges in the Common Law Claims Division to win favourable judgements. Now that US Attorney Stan Sennett has uncovered Feaver's dirty little secret, he wants to use Feaver to get at the man he believes to be at the centre of all the legal corruption in the metropolitan area, Brendan Tuohey, Presiding Judge of Common Law Claims and heir apparent to the Chief Justice of Kindle County Superior Court. With Mason as an advisor, Robbie assists Sennett and his team of FBI undercover agents in crafting a massive sting operation that involves an FBI-manufactured lawyer named "James McManis", a cast of fictional clients and "Evon Miller"--a deep cover agent (and former Olympic athlete)--who poses as Robbie's paralegal and paramour.
With a skill rarely found in genre fiction, Turow composes his narrative with variations on several recurring themes. The novel ripples with paranoia as the FBI enshrouds the legal community of Kindle County in a web of tapped phones, concealed cameras and wired spies.
At the centre of indirection sit Robbie and Evon. The pair dance through an elegant game of erotically-charged hide and seek: Robbie, the practised liar and former actor, and Evon, the agent whose whole life must remain a fiction if she is to survive. At their best, legal thrillers leave readers confronting the core of their values and perceptions of legal and moral rectitude. Personal Injuries is the legal thriller at its very best. --Patrick O'Kelley --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Chief Judge of Kindle County and four of his most prominent subordinates have been taking bribes for years. The US Attorney is trying to build up a case against them. But the only way he can hope to convict them is with the help of Robbie Feaver, a thoroughly-compromised lawyer.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've loved everything Turow has written previously but this book was dreadful. Written almost entirely without pace or plot, it encourages not the slightest empathy with any of it's characters. Nothing happens until the last third of the book when it finally begins to take on Turow's usual style. Usually a voracious reader who can read a good novel in a single sitting, I read this in bites of 3 or 4 pages a time, all the while praying I could get to the end of it as I have never given up on a book once started. Boy, this one came close though.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is possibly Turow's best novel, the other candidate for that honour being The Burden of Proof. It's only just occurred to me that what the two have in common is the devious, driven and none-too-scrupulous federal prosecutor Stan Sennett. This novel is about the corruption of the judicial process. Several of Kindle County's judges are taking bribes and Sennett is determined to do whatever is neccessary to put the leader, Presiding Judge Brendan Tuohey, in prison. The investigation requires a horrendously complicated FBI operation, involving a fake law-firm, concocted personal injury claims and several layers of deception. Readers of The Burden of Proof will know one of Stan's tactics is to compel relatively honest people to betray their friends and family. Here, he goes far beyond that. Is it possible for the prosecutors to tackle something as insidious as judicial corruption while keeping their own integrity intact? If not, don't they risk corrupting the system further?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I like Scott Turow, but this is a pretty average tale. The build-up here is slow and the book fails to reach great heights thereafter. Sorry, but this was a disappointing effort from an author who is otherwise very well regarded.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Subtle and mesmerising, Turow slowly drawing in the strings!
Don't look for instant action here. This is a mature book in which tension builds slowly but surely to a realistic, complex, infuriating and intriguing climax. Fascinating.
Published on 27 Mar 2001 by ZedBooks
Good, but not great
I've enjoyed Turow in the past but, for some reason, I found his latest curiously unengaging. Maybe it was me, but none of the characters clicked for me this time around. Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2000
Another blockbuster from Turow
Couldn't put this one down - I'd been building an airfix model with super glue!! Only joking - kept me awake for four nights - a great read and the plot just keeps you guessing -... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2000
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