The Last Innocent Man

✍ Scribed by Margolin, Phillip

• Book ID: 107861697
• Publisher: Harper
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 130 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Defense attorney David Nash has made a career out of setting monsters freeand no one does it better. Now a case has come to "the Ice Man" that could help cleanse Nash of the guilt and doubts that torment him: that rarest of all defendants, an innocent man.

A family man, a rising star in the legal profession, this new client has been accused of a heinous crimethe brutal murder of an undercover vice cop. But the case that is supposed to be Nash's redemption could prove to be his downfall, dragging him into a dark and sinister world where lies and the truth are interchangeable; where the manipulator becomes the manipulated, and every answer spawns more complex and terrifying questions. And as the shadows close in around him, the final question that remains for David Nash concerns his own fate: life . . . or death?

From Publishers Weekly

First paperack publication of criminal lawyer Margolin's 1981 courtroom thriller.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"Jampacked plot... (Margolin) shows us... the difficulties of lawyers as people practicing in a system of justice whisch is the same for the guilty and the innocent... and exposes the costs paid by a conscientious lawyer in the coin of human feeling."
-- The Washington Post.

"Exciting stumper, high pitched courtroom drama."
-- Booklist.

"An intricate tale that weighs guilt, justice, and the law, this book also has plenty of action and drama. A real spellbinder."
-- Library Journal

From the Paperback edition.