Presumed Innocent

Scott Turow

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The novel that launched Turow's career as one of America's pre-eminent thriller writers tells the story of Rusty Sabicch, chief deputy prosecutor in a large Midwestern city. With three weeks to go in his boss' re-election campaign, a member of Rusty's staff is found murdered; he is charged with finding the killer, until his boss loses and, incredibly, Rusty finds himself accused of the murder.

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Presumed Innocent
SPRING1"I should feel sorrier," Raymond Horgan says.I wonder at first if he is talking about the eulogy he is going to deliver. He has just looked over his notes again and is returning two index cards to the breast pocket of his blue serge suit. But when I catch his expression I recognize that his remark was personal. From the rear seat of the county's Buick, he stares through the auto window toward the traffic thickening as we approach the South End. His look has taken on a meditative cast.

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"A grabber to the end… a mystery, a law-courtroom drama, a suspense story and more." —Cincinnati Post
 
"Replac[es] the usual array of cardboard motives with full-blooded, complex passions." —Newsweek
 
"This one will keep you up at nights, engrossed and charged with adrenaline." —People

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Scott Turow

Scott Turow is the author of worldwide bestselling novels including Innocent, Ordinary Heroes, The Burden of Proof, Reversible Errors and Limitations. His works of nonfiction include One L, his journal from his first year at law school, and Ultimate Punishment, which he wrote after serving on the Illinois commission that 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. Ultimate Punishment won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He lives outside Chicago, where he is partner in the firm of SNR Denton (formerly Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal).

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Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow

Hardcover

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
July 1987
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374237134
ISBN10: 0374237131
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 448 pages
$35.00

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December 1986
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ISBN: 9781429962605
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448 pages
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