Book description
Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a
criminal defence lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat
as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade.
Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins
to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is
troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or
the strange and threatening emails he has started to receive? And what
is it about this horrific case of sexual assault, now on trial in his
courtroom, that has led him to question his fitness to judge? In
Limitations, Scott Turow, the master of the legal thriller, returns to
Kindle County with a page-turning entertainment that asks the biggest
questions of all. Ingeniously, and with great economy of style, Turow
probes the limitations not only of the law, but of human understanding
itself.
Scott Turow is the internationally renowned author of six
bestselling novels about the law, from Presumed Innocent (1987)
to Reversible Errors, as well as a work of non-fiction,
Ultimate Punishment, which centres on the death penalty. His
most recent book was the critically acclaimed wartime thriller,
Ordinary Heroes. He lives with his family outside Chicago,
where he is a partner in the international law firm of Sonnenschein
Nath & Rosenthal.
