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Presumed Innocent [Paperback]

Scott Turow (Author)
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Publication Date: 1 April 2010

Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime.

This 'insider' book by a Chicago lawyer was one of the great novels of the 1980s, selling more than nine million copies, and was made into a famous film starring Harrison Ford. It's a supremely suspenseful and compelling courtroom drama about ambition, weakness, hypocrisy and American justice.

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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; Re-issue edition (1 April 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0141049219
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141049212
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 125,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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If you start Presumed Innocent you will finish it - it grips like an octopus, and Turow unwinds the plot with brilliant cat-and-mouse meanness (Sunday Times )

Phenomenal... a powerful study of ambition, weakness, hypocrisy and American 'justice' (Sunday Express )

Impossible to put down (Evening Standard )

A riveting performance (Observer )

Politics, sex and death. Who could ask for anything more? (Washington Post )

About the Author

Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of eight bestselling works of fiction, including this first novel Presumed Innocent, the winner of the 1987 Silver Dagger Award, and his most recent Ordinary Heroes (2005). Presumed Innocent, Reversible Errors and The Burden of Proof have been made into highly successful films. He has been a partner in the Chicago office of law firm Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal since 1986, concentrating on white collar criminal defense.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars This review is of Innocent by Scott Turow Hardback 5 May 2010
By V. L. Harding VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Scott Turow's latest book reunites us with many of the characters from his novel "Presumed Innocent" published over twenty years ago.
Rusty Sabich is still the main lead,he is now a Judge, older but apparently no wiser. He is again carrying on an affair while still married to his wife Barbara, which is really asking for trouble. And trouble is what he gets as Mr. Turow weaves a mesh of intrigue and misuderstandings around him until he again arrives in the courtroom facing his old adversary Tommy Molto,who is now Chief prosecutor.
Tommy is now married with a young child, and though regarded to be not as smart as Rusty, has nevertheless learnt his lesson from the previous encounter, and plays everything by the book. In many ways he strikes me as being the only character in the book who conforms to the letter of the law. Sandy Stern makes a cameo appearance as Rusty's lawyer and the presiding Judge is quite a memorable person with a quaint sense of humour. All In all, a story to savour, up there with the best of Mr Turow's work, and long may he continue.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Turow's best but worth a read 20 Sep 2011
By TMJ
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Scott Turow has written two of the best legal thrillers I have read - Presumed Innocent and Burden of Proof. He does not have a fluent prose style, and I find the internal soul-searching of the main characters a bit hard to take at times. But my goodness at his best, can the man contrive a plot; and his courtroom scenes are just brilliant.

That said, he has written some real turkeys since his glory days, and so I was a tad apprehensive about reading "Innocent". Thankfully, it's not at all bad. the book is a follow-up to "Presumed Innocent" and you really need to have read the latter to get value from the former. Innocent is not as good; the plot doesn't have the same kind of nail biting uncertainty and complexity, and sudden twists, and the trial scenes though good dont form a large part of the book, and are not in the same league as Presumed Innocent. I also find the multiple viewpoints used rather confusing a disruptive of the narrative flow; and his prose hasn't improved.

But it's worth a read, particularly if you enjoyed his earlier books.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Original and Absorbing Legal Novel 1 Sep 2011
By Brett H TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
The front cover quotes the Sunday Times, 'As Gripping as Grisham'. Normally you take comments like that with a pinch of salt and an attempt by the publishers to get some reflected glory. However, in this case I would say it was bang on the money. This is the first book by Scott Turow I have read. It grabbed my attention from the outset and was absorbing throughout. Certainly gripping like Grisham, but apart from the fact that it is a legal story, there the similarity ends as the style is compelling and quite different.

The story concerns a judge who, many years earlier, was accused of and cleared of the murder of a lover. His wife has died suddenly under suspicious circumstances and he finds himself in the frame as the prime suspect. As an extra twist, the prosecutor in this case tried and failed to obtain a conviction all those years earlier which is a blot on his otherwise successful career.

There are quite a lot of references to the earlier case,and it came as no surprise to learn subsequently that this is covered in Scott Turow's previous novel, Presumed Innocent which was published about twenty years ago. However, I can confirm that this book can be read on a standalone basis and I did not feel that not having read its predecessor affected my enjoyment significantly.

The story is written from the perspective of four of the main characters - the judge, his lover, his son and the prosecutor. Last time I read a book in this format I found it very difficult to identify with or have any liking for any of the narrators. However, here the author really gets under the skin of the participants such that the reader can empathise with each of them and see what is going on from their perspective. You can identify with each of them, their hopes and fears, and none of them is dislikeable so the normal divide between what is right and what is wrong does not apply here.

So to summarise, I found this an original and absorbing novel which I thoroughly enjoyed and which was something of a page turner. Highly recommended!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Innocent Is A Top-Notch Sequel To Turow's Genre-Defining Courtroom...
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