Cuando Stewart Dubinsky, periodista jubilado, descubre que su padre, David Dubin, fue juzgado por un tribunal militar en 1945, decide adentrarse en el misterio que siempre ha rodeado la vida de su progenitor. Decidido a averiguar que ocurrio, Stewart consigue que su padre le relate sus experiencias durante la guerra. Como abogado agregado al tercer regimiento de Patty a finales de 1944, a David Dubin se le ordena investigar y arrestar al comandante Robert Martin, un elegante espia de la Oficina de Servicios Estrategicos acusado por el general de desobedecer ordenes, y de ser posiblemente un agente ruso. Sin embargo, David no lleva a cabo tal cometido. Martin se muestra esquivo, y los esfuerzos de Dubin para descubrir que se esconde tras su resistencia lo llevan a la Bastogne sitiada durante la batalla del Bulge y a un campo de concentracion recien liberado, donde David rescata del horror nazi a su futura esposa y comienza una comprometedora aventura con Gita, miembro polaco de la unidad de sabotaje de Martin. Heroes corrientes es el nuevo thriller de Scott Turow, prestigioso autor que nos cuenta el horror de una guerra, con un dilema moral y una historia familiar como marco.
In this account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Scott Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment from his days as an impassioned young prosecutor to his service on the Illinois commission which investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office. Along the way, Turow provides a brief history of America's ambivalent relationship with the ultimate punishment, analyses the potent reasons for and against it, including the role of the victims' survivors, and tells the powerful stories behind the statistics
Romeo Gandolph has confessed to a series of murders, but now, on death row, he takes it back--and it looks as if the case might indeed be open to review. His attorney, Arthur Raven, uncovers another suspect, who also confesses--but is this one any more reliable? To complicate the issue, the judge who issued the original sentence is serving time for bribery. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Romeo Gandolph has confessed to a series of murders, but now, on death row, he takes it back--and it looks as if the case might indeed be open to review. His attorney, Arthur Raven, uncovers another suspect, who also confesses--but is this one any more reliable? To complicate the issue, the judge who issued the original sentence is serving time for bribery. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Un tenso y dramático thriller que retrata magistralmente la corrupción de la profesión jurídica y el sistema judicial en Estados Unidos. Un abogado culpable de fraude se ve obligado a colaborar con el FBI para desmantelar una espuria red de jueces y fiscales.
