description: "Spine-tingling...Mr. Diehl can sustain suspense."THE NEW YORKTIMESMartin 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...From the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Primal Fear
titlecomplete: Primal Fear
characters: Aaron Stampler, Martin Vail
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Crime, Legal Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Thriller
ratings_count: 9480
series: Vail/Stampler
publisher: Random House Value Publishing