A drive-by shooting of an aging white woman at a gang-plagued Kindle County housing project sets in motion Scott Turow's intensely absorbing novel. With its riveting suspense and idelibly drawn characters, *The Laws of our Fathers* shows why Turow is not only the master of the modern legal thriller
The Laws of our Fathers
โ Scribed by Scott Turow
- Publisher
- Warner Vision Books
- Year
- 1997;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 388 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge Sonia Klonsky, on whose desk the case lands. As the pursuit of justice takes bizarre and unusual turns, Judge Klonsky is brought face-to-face with a host of extraordinary personalities and formidable enemies bent on her destruction.
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