Silent Witness
By Richard North Patterson
(Ballantine Books, Mass Market Paperback, 9780345404763, 512pp.)
Publication Date: August 30, 1997
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback, Audio Cassette
Categories: Espionage/Intrigue, Legal, Psychological
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Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-eight years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide.
Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see sixteen-year-old Marcie Calder alive, and as shocking forensic evidence at the trial reveals, he is the father of her unborn child.
Probing the darkest recesses of love and friendship, Lord will discover things too disturbing to ignore--that Sam wasn't the only one in Lake City with a motive for killing Marcie, that small-town secrets can hide devastating betrayals, and that the past has a way of repeating itself . . . even in murder.
Richard North Patterson studied fiction writing with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has written eight novels, including the international bestsellers Degree of Guilt and Eyes of a Child. The Final Judgment is being developed as a miniseries by NBC. Until recently a trial lawyer, Patterson lives with his wife, Laurie, and their family in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard.
"This generation's best writer of legal thrillers . . . His strongest fiction to date."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Enthralling . . . The denouement is powerful."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Intense courtroom drama . . . As startling as the bang of a gavel."
--People
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