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...Turow's straight-arrow character may explain, better than anything else, why his books have struck a responsive public chord. His plots and characters revolve around a nexus of old-fashioned values: honesty, loyalty, trust. When these values are violated -- sometimes salaciously, always entertainingly -- lawyers and the legal system rush in to try to set things right again. But the central quest in Turow's fiction is not for favorable verdicts but for the redemption of souls, the healing of society. Best sellers seldom get more serious than that...
...BURDEN OF PROOF by Scott Turow...
Readers of Scott Turow's previous blockbuster, Presumed Innocent, will know better than to hold their breath for answers. Turow, a lawyer who has kept jurors as well as readers on the edge of their chairs, has a preternatural knack for drawing out the suspense. The gimmick in Presumed Innocent was to follow the mystery through the eyes of the accused murderer, Rusty Sabich, a public prosecutor on trial for the murder of an amorous colleague. The intimate narrative device ensured reader sympathy, even though Sabich waited until the final pages to tell all he knew about the corpus delectable...
There is even a quasi romance with his adversary, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonia ("Sonny") Klonsky, an admirable model of today's busy woman. In addition to a grueling office schedule, she has to deal with an unhappy marriage, an advanced pregnancy and the possibility of recurrent breast cancer. Turow puts Sandy and Sonny in a hot tub together. But the bubbly alchemy is less convincing than their professional chemistry. Exchanges about subpoenas and fiduciary relationships resound with the authority of a judge's gavel. Clear explanations of how dishonest brokers and floor traders operate should add to the damage-control...
...story well told. Its characters are substantial, and its underlying theme of family has been central to the popular novel from War and Peace to The * Godfather. So here is a forecast you can't refuse: this summer, readers from Montauk to Maui will be turning the pages of Turow's book fast enough to air- condition the country...