Silent witness
By: Richard North Patterson
Edition: 1st Ballantine books ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780345404763
Subjects: Trials (Murder); Fiction
Description: Patterson's most stunning novel to date offers a powerful portrayal of the complexities of male friendship, of the darkest recesses of love, and of the ways in which the past stakes it claim upon the present. When attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend his former high school best friend who's been accused of murder, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his past.
Table of contents: title: Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-eight years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide. Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last person to see sixtee-year-old Marcie Calder alive, and as shocking forensic evidence at the trial reveals, he is the father of her unborn child. Probing the darkest recesses of love and friendship, Lord will discover things too disturbing to ignore; title: that Sam wasn't the only one in Lake City with a motive for killing Marcie, that small-town secrets can hide devastating betrayals, and that the past has a way of repeating itself ... even in murder.