The Legal Limit

Zusatztext "An engrossingly realized novel.... Elmore Leonard meets John Grisham! but smart and procedurally realistic with lots of crackling… dialogue and a plot wound as tightly as a watch." — Los Angeles Times   “A model of how to write a literary legal thriller with a wry sense of humor. This is probably the best courthouse story I've ever heard or read.” —Mark Lindquist! The Oregonian   “Deep yet playful. . . . A novel of ample graces.” —Allison Glock! The New York Times Book Review   “Compelling…. High octane…. Skillfully weaving a plot that includes lie detectors! wiretaps and arcane legal principles! the author creates a world in which family ties can easily turn into nooses.” —Stephen Amidon! The Washington Post   “Masterful.... A story of life and death! crime and punishment! sin and redemption! and the chasm that sometimes opens up between the law and justice.” —Chicago Sun-Times   “An edge-of-your-seat legal thriller.... Take it to the beach and turn its pages breathlessly. Then mull over its deeper themes on that long ride home.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch   "Funny! smart and Southern to the bone...[ The Legal Limit ] packs a wallop...it's so intoxicating that it doesn't just dazzle Clark's reviewers! it inspires them." —J. Peder Zane! The News & Observer   "[ The Legal Limit ] is filled to the brim with creamy! substantive! compelling prose...the manner in which the intricacies of the law! truth! justice and friendship [are] handled is masterful...This is writing at its best." —Barbara Rich! The Daily Progress   "With The Legal Limit ! Clark has outdone himself again. His novels just keep getting better...He's got the right gifts to draw the raw materials from real life and spin them into well-plotted! beautifully phrased! imaginative works of fiction...Martin Clark is the new standard by which other works of legal fiction should be judged." —Linda Brinson! Winston-Salem Journal   "Clark conveys the joys of small-town life with an eye for detail and the beauty of worn! familiar things." —Salem Macknee! The Charlotte Observer   “Clark’s wise! knowing novel [is] a superb thriller that ponders family! fraternal loyalty! marital love! child rearing! loss! integrity! tolerance! the fault line between law and justice! and even the economic well-being of a community.” — Booklist! starred review   “A masterful mix of legal arcana and white-knuckle suspense.” — Kirkus! starred review   “Profound and moving…[Clark’s] most substantial and thought-provoking work to date.” — Publishers Weekly ! starred review Informationen zum Autor Martin Clark Klappentext Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear. Intricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, The Legal Limit is an exploration of the judicial system's roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law.The shooting came in October 1984, abrupt and rash, a quicksilver bang .The day it happened, Mason Hunt had spent most of his morning settled into ...

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• Autori: Martin Clark
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.06.2009
• EAN: 9780307388667
• ISBN: 978-0-307-38866-7
• Pagine: 416
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 202 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi