From the best-selling author of Presumed Innocent comes Testimony, Scott Turow’s most twist-filled thriller to date.
Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, even his country. Invited to become a prosecutor at The Hague’s International Criminal Court, it was a chance to start afresh.
But when his first case is to examine the disappearance of 400 Roma refugees – an apparent war crime left unsolved for 10 years – it’s clear this new life won’t be an easy one….
Whispered rumours have the perpetrators ranging from Serb paramilitaries to the US Army, but there’s no hard evidence to hold either accountable and only a single witness to say it happened at all.
To get to the truth, Boom must question the integrity of every person linked to the case – from Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US major general, to flirtatious barrister Esma Czarni – as it soon becomes apparent that every party has a vested interest and no qualms in steering the investigation their way….
The Best Turow book I have read so far I have been an avid reader of Scott Turow for years. His books have featured several aspects of legal drama. This book features issues of the international war crimes commission ” ICC”in the Netherlands.Â
I suspect that many readers who love Scott Turow will find themselves at odds with this … I suspect that many readers who love Scott Turow will find themselves at odds with this departure from what we’ve come to expect to him. This is much more complex and thoughtful than his previous novels. If you don’t remember much about the Bosnia conflict, you’ll find yourself periodically stopping to do some side research. Turow has created terrific characters, not only in Boom, but also Merry, Goos, Attila, Esma and Nara. Each one of them rings true. My only quibble was with one or two of…
The mystery had the potential to be quite good, but when you spend the last 20 pages … Divorce should have been the title. I didn’t count, but I’d bet more than half the pages of the book deal with introspection about divorce – before, during and lots about after. Since books tells us most about the author, I’d have to guess that Mr. Turow was going through a divorce during the production of this book. His discourse on the topic did nothing to enhance or enliven his A story.Â