The Mercy Rule

Zusatztext "Very entertaining. . . a large and emotionally sprawling novel." -- Chicago Tribune "A taut read. . . Another winner." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A thought-provoking and important novel." --Nelson DeMille Informationen zum Autor John Lescroart Klappentext "A stylish whodunit . . . Lescroart [is] in his best form yet."-People Once Dismas Hardy was a cop. Now he spends his days in a lawyer's suit, billing hours to a corporate client in a downtown San Francisco office. Hardy's wife and kids like it that way. Then one client changes everything. Graham Russo, a former baseball star, is charged with murdering his dying father. Was it suicide, the last desperate act of a dying man? Was it murder? Or mercy? Now, as a carnival of reporters, activists, cops, lovers, and families throng around the case, Dismas Hardy is going to trial with a client he doesn't trust, a key witness he cannot believe, and a system that almost destroyed him once. For Dismas, this case will challenge everything he believes about the law, about his family, and about himself. Because a chilling truth is beginning to emerge about an old man's lonely death. And what Dismas knows could put him next in line to die. . . . Praise for The Mercy Rule "Very entertaining . . . a large and emotionally sprawling novel."-Chicago Tribune "As usual in a Lescroart novel, character dominates plot as the author proves, yet again, that resonant drama can be found in family."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "An edge-of-the-seat legal thriller that has it all-hot-button issues, deception, greed, corruption, and a labyrinthine plot that will keep you guessing until the very last page."-Faye KellermanDismas Hardy was enjoying a superb round of darts, closing in on what  might become a personal best. He was in his office on a Monday morning, throwing his twenty-gram  hand-tooled, custom-flighted tungsten beauties. He called the game  "twenty-down" although it wasn't any kind of sanctioned affair. It had  begun as simple practice--once around and down the board from "20" to  bull's-eye. He'd turned the practice rounds into a game against  himself. His record was twenty-five throws. The best possible round  was twenty-one, and now he was shooting at the "3" with his nineteenth  dart. A twenty-two was still possible. Beating twenty-five was going to be  a lock, assuming his concentration didn't get interrupted. On his desk the telephone buzzed. He'd worked downtown at an office on Sutter Street for nearly six years.  The rest of the building was home to David Freeman & Associates, a law  firm specializing in plaintiffs' personal injury and criminal defense  work. But Hardy wasn't one of Freeman's associates. Technically, he didn't  work for Freeman at all, although lately almost all of his billable hours  had come from a client his landlord had farmed out to him. Hardy occupied the only office on the top floor of the building. Both  literally and figuratively he was on his own. He held on to his dart and threw an evil eye at the telephone behind him,  which buzzed again. To throw now would be to miss. He sat back on the  desk, punched a button. "Yo." Freeman's receptionist, Phyllis, had grown to tolerate, perhaps even  like, Hardy, although it was plain that she disapproved of his casual  attitude. This was a law firm. Lawyers should answer their phone crisply,  with authority and dignity. They shouldn't just pick up and say "Yo." He took an instant's pleasure in her sigh. She lowered her voice. "There's a man down here to see you. He doesn't have an appointment." It was the same tone she would have used if the guest had stepped in something on the sidewalk. "He says he knows you from"--a pause while she sought a suitable euphemism. She finally failed and had to come out with the hate...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Lescroart, John T. Lescroart
• Editore: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.08.1999
• EAN: 9780440222828
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22282-8
• Pagine: 640
• Dimensioni: 105 mm x 175 mm x 35 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi