num_pages: 399
description: Martin Vail, the brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer every prosecutor and politician love to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop. Vail is certain to lose, but Vail uses his unorthodox ways to good advantage when choosing his legal team—a tight group of men and women who must uncover the extraordinary truth behind the archbishop's slaughter. They do, in a heart-stopping climax unparalleled for the surprise it springs on the reader...
language: English
title: Primal Fear
titlecomplete: Primal Fear (Vail/Stampler, #1)
characters: Martin Vail, Aaron Stampler
genres: Drama, Legal Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 9476
series: Vail/Stampler
publisher: Ballantine Books