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Border Crossing

✍ Scribed by Barker, Pat


Book ID
108108532
Publisher
Picador
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
126 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141935430

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✦ Synopsis


Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom's spontaneous act saves the life of someone whose past, as well as his future, he feels a sense of responsibility towards. Recently released from prison, and living under an assumed name, Danny Miller was tried for murder as a ten-year-old on the basis of Tom's testimony, and assessment of him as a psychologist and an expert witness. When Danny asks Tom to help him sort out his lifebeginning with his pastTom is drawn into a lonely, soul-searching reinvestigation of the child murderer's case.


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