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...dead. The police wonder what she was doing on these mean streets at the break of dawn. Gang leader Ordell Trent, a.k.a. Hardcore, whom witnesses place at the scene, accepts a plea bargain to tell what he knows. The woman, he explains, was the mother of his probation officer, Nile Eddgar, and an unintended victim; the gang had actually been paid, by Nile, to kill someone else--Nile's father Loyell Eddgar, an influential state senator...
Judge Sonia ("Sonny") Klonsky inherits the county's case against Nile Eddgar and soon wishes she hadn't. Not only has she known--25 years earlier, in California--all three members of the Eddgar family; she also learns that Nile's defense lawyer is Hobie Tuttle, a former Black Panther and another old pal from her flower-child youth in California. Worse still, she spots her live-in boyfriend from those days among the reporters covering the trial. He is Seth Weissman, who is now, under an assumed name, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist...
...trial of Nile Eddgar is not primarily what Turow's novel is about. He is concerned instead with the emotional states of Sonny and Seth, who loved each other during the heady days of drugs and protests and who now, a quarter-century later, are stuck with the care-worn grownups they have separately become. "Having had such high hopes for the world," Sonny muses, "are we the unhappiest adult generation...
...name means "bringer of beauty," although he was officially known as the Master of All Justice and Ruler of the Lower and Upper Nile. He was worshipped as a god during his lifetime, some 4,600 years ago, from the Nile Valley to the Sinai. He designed and built the first true pyramids and founded a dynasty--Egypt's 4th--that lasted more than 100 years...
Treasure he found, in abundance. The jewelry that men and women wore in ancient Egypt was buried with them. De Morgan's finds included two diadems, one with delicately intertwined water weeds and flowers; a necklace of sculpted-gold Nile shells; and an exquisite belt of gold lioness heads and amethyst beads. But De Morgan didn't uncover all there was. A year and a half ago, the Met's Arnold found a Queen's mummy and some of her royal jewelry at one of Dahshur's later monuments. "You're so accustomed to going over robbed tombs that...