Advance Reading Copy. 8vo. [viii], 612pp. Printed wraps. Special roadshow edition, April 2002.
Author's sixth novel. Winner of the 2003 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction. When new evidence that might exonerate an inmate on Death Row emerges, corporate lawyer Arthur Raven and the original detective on the case tussle for court-room supremacy. A big book about little people in big trouble. A two-part CBS TV-series broadcast in May 2004, and directed by Mike Robe, starred Tom Selleck and William H. Macy in the leads. "Turow is a wonderful stylist... a gripping, moving novel." –Sunday Times