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Paperback original. The master of the legal thriller, returns to Kindle County with a page-turning entertainment that asks the biggest questions of all. Ingeniously, and with great economy of style, Turow probes the limitations not only of the law but of human understanding itself.
"While Turow's writing is assured as ever, the plot and the legal dilemmas interwoven into it aren't up to his usual high standards." - PW.
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Scott Turow continues to work as an attorney, and is a partner in the
Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, a national law firm
with 600 lawyers. His practice centers on white collar
criminal litigation and he devotes a substantial part of his
practice now to pro bono work, including representations in
cases involving the death penalty. In one of these matters,
Alejandro Hernandez, co-defendant of Rolando Cruz, was exonerated
after 11 years in prison.
He was born on April 12, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated
with high honors from Amherst College in 1970. That year, he
received an Edith Mirrielees Fellowship to the Stanford University
Creative Writing Center, ...
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