High Crimes
When (not if---the deal has already been signed) this terrific thriller  gets made into a movie, you  might see Morgan Freeman as a crusty lawyer who specializes in taking on the  military establishment tell  the actress playing ace Boston barrister and Harvard Law professor Claire Heller  Chapman, "Every  civilian who's ever gone into a military general court-martial and tried to  attack the foundations of the  military has lost his case. No exceptions. The military is a tight, closed  fraternity. They take it real serious.  Military justice is a deadly serious business." Claire has to realize this  as she prepares to defend her  husband--the man she knows as Tom Chapman, but who the Army says is Ron Kubik-- on charges that he  took part in a massacre of 87 civilians in San Salvador 13 years before. Full of  doubts about Tom's  innocence and her own ability to prove it in an unfamiliar arena, Claire is  brought to exciting, moving life  by the extravagantly gifted Joseph Finder, whose previous thrillers (Extraordinary Powers,The Zero Hour) are available in paperback.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.