- Detective and mystery fiction, legal fiction, thrillers, bondage
The novel that launched Turow's career as one of America's pre-eminent thriller writers tells the story of Rusty Sabicch, chief deputy prosecutor in a large Midwestern city. With three weeks to go in his boss' re-election campaign, a member of Rusty's staff is found murdered; he is charged with finding the killer, until his boss loses and, incredibly, Rusty finds himself accused of the murder.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Scott Turow
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Éditions J'ai Lu, EDICIONES B, Bloomsbury Pub.
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9784167527075
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Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer.
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