Book description
'She was a girl, really, with short red hair and a waif-like
slimness. But despite the flowered dress she wore, her belly had begun
to show. Immobile, the girl gazed at the clinic as though it were a
thousand miles away.'
The young woman is Mary Ann Tierney. She is fifteen years old.
Within days her name will be known to millions across America, her
court case a television must-watch for everyone from the President
downwards. As Mary Ann takes on her own parents and the constitutional
law of the United States in a desperate bid to protect her future
right to bear children, the ramifications of 'the Tierney case' bring
a threat to the new President, Kerry Kilcannon, to his nominee for
Chief Justice, Caroline Masters, and to his main rival for the
Presidency, Senator Chad Palmer. All have dangerous secrets in their
past, secrets that would not only threaten careers, but bring death
and tragedy to innocent lives.
Richard North Patterson has written a number of novels including the
international bestsellers,
Degree of Guilt
,
Eyes of a Child
,
The Final Judgement
,
Silent Witness
,
No Safe Place
,
Dark Lady
and
Protect and Defend
. His novels have won the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de
Littérature Policière. He and his wife, Laurie, live with their family
in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard.
