Book description
1967, Lake City, Ohio. Tony Lord and Sam Robb, both in their teens, are
best friends and athletic rivals. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a
successful San francisco attorney; sam is an assistant principal at Lake
City High School. Sam has never left home, and Tony has never returned
since the trauma that changed his life: the brutal murder of his first
love, Alison, of which he was wrongly accused and which turned everyone,
even Sam, against him. Now Sam is a suspect. One of his female students
has been murdered. Tony, reluctantly but inevitably, comes back to
defend him. At once, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his
past. In the merciless arena of a murder trial, he must confront not
only his fear that Sam is a murderer but also the buried truths that
obscure the real meaning of Alison's death. Powerful in its portrayal of
the complexities of male friendship, of the darkest recesses of love,
and of the many ways in which the past stakes its claim upon the
present,
Silent Witness
is that rare suspense novel which is far more - the kind of story we
have come to expect from Richard North Patterson. 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.
