Word: turow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: In this irresistible tale, Turow proves it is hard to catch a thief when nearly everyone seems suspect...
...other words, Scott Turow is about to condemn another summer's worth of beachgoers to addictive page turning...
...setting is Kindle County, the imaginary Midwestern tract that also provided the Rust Belt backdrop for Turow's first two best-selling novels, Presumed Innocent (1987) and The Burden of Proof (1990). The moral climate remains much the same as in the earlier books: inducements to lie, cheat, steal, even kill, proliferate, while those in the legal profession -- unsworn priests of the social order -- struggle to sift right from wrong and to keep themselves, if possible, uncorrupted...
That is not easy for Mack Malloy, Turow's most complex and problematic hero to date. Pushing 50, Mack agrees to look for the missing partner because he fears his own high-paying job at Gage & Griswell may be in jeopardy; if he succeeds, he should be able to coast on his partners' gratitude for a few more years. The idea of the chase appeals to the ex-cop in him. And the job may distract him from the dreariness of his personal life: his recent divorce, his unruly adolescent son, the drinking problem he hopes he has solved...
Needless to say -- this is, after all, a Scott Turow novel -- the matter of the purloined money proves to be far more complicated than Mack or his colleagues anticipated. Finding Kamin turns out to be the easy part; the identity of the person who finally winds up with the millions remains perfectly hidden until almost the very end of the book...