The Times
...Turow at his best... complex and elegant.
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Sunday Times, 17 November 2002
Turow is a wonderful stylist... a gripping, moving novel.
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Daily Mirror
This is lean, mean writing, but with plenty of heart too. A novel that'll have you chomping at the bit from beginning to end.
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Product Description
A supercharged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it.
Book Description
Rommy "Squirrel" Gandloph is an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder. His slow progress toward execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer and Rommy's reluctant representative, receives word of new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph. Arthur's opponent is the formidable prosecuting attorney Muriel Wynn. Together with Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, she is determined to see Rommy's fate sealed. Meanwhile the judge who originally found him guilty is just out of prison herself. Scott Turow's compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of weary police, small-time crooks and ambitious lawyers. No other writer offers such a convincing picture of how the law and life interact - or such a profound understanding of what is at stake when the state holds the power to end a man's life.
About the Author
Scott Turow's five previous novels - Presumed Innocent. The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, The Laws of our Fathers and Personal Injuries - have all been major bestsellers. America's most distinguished writer about the law is also a leading lawyer in his native Chicago.