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The Holdout: One jury member changed the verdict. What if she was wrong?

Autor Graham Moore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2021

O decizie greșită poate bântui un om o viață întreagă, dar ce se întâmplă când acea decizie a schimbat cursul justiției? În urmă cu zece ani, Maya Seale a făcut imposibilul: a convins un juriu sceptic să îl achite pe profesorul Bobby Nock, principalul suspect în cazul dispariției unei moștenitoare miliardare. Astăzi, verdictul revine să o distrugă. Când jurații se reunesc pentru un documentar, unul dintre ei este ucis, iar arma crimei este găsită chiar în camera Mayei. Miza este totală: trebuie să își dovedească nevinovăția acum, în timp ce se întreabă dacă nu cumva a eliberat un criminal atunci.

Apreciem modul în care Graham Moore construiește o tensiune insuportabilă prin alternarea planurilor temporale. Stilul este tăios, specific unui scenarist premiat cu Oscar, eliminând orice balast descriptiv în favoarea unui ritm alert. La intersecția dintre With Prejudice de Robin Peguero și The Thirteenth Juror de John Lescroart, acest roman polițist combină dinamica complexă a deliberărilor dintr-o sală de judecată cu suspansul unei vânătoari de oameni în care oricine poate fi călăul.

După ce a explorat bătăliile legale și tehnologice în The Last Days of Night, Moore revine la tema obsesiei pentru adevăr și a fragilității sistemului juridic. The Holdout nu este doar o cronică a unui proces, ci un studiu despre cum certitudinea se poate transforma în teroare sub presiunea noilor dovezi. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în capacitatea de a transforma cititorul în cel de-al treisprezecelea jurat, forțându-l să reevalueze faptele odată cu personajele.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781409196815
ISBN-10: 140919681X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Orion
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte pasionaților de drame judiciare care caută un ritm alert și o perspectivă proaspătă asupra sistemului de juriu. Cititorul câștigă o experiență imersivă în culisele justiției americane, unde adevărul este adesea o chestiune de negociere. Este un roman esențial pentru cei care au apreciat „12 Angry Men” sau „The Imitation Game”, oferind o intrigă inteligentă care pune la încercare moralitatea și logica până la ultima pagină.


Descriere

'The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade' Sophie Hannah

'One of the best legal thrillers ... as elegant and gripping as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent' Daily Mail

'Quite the tour de force! Twelve Angry Men meets Chinatown and creates something of its own' Sarah Pinborough

'This is a tense, emotionally charged, scary-good, stand-out read' Caroline Kepnes

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One juror changed the verdict. What if she was wrong?

'Ten years ago we made a decision together...'

Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher, Bobby Nock, is the prime suspect. It's an open and shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed.

Until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, persuades the rest of the jurors to vote not guilty: a controversial decision that will change all of their lives forever.

Ten years later, one of the jurors is found dead, and Maya is the prime suspect.

The real killer could be any of the other ten jurors. Is Maya being forced to pay the price for her decision all those years ago?

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'Plunge a syringe filled with adrenaline into the heart of Twelve Angry Men and you've got The Holdout: the first legal thriller in thirty years - ever since Presumed Innocent and A Time to Kill electrified readers the world over - to rank alongside those two modern classics.' AJ Finn

'A page-turning legal thriller with a twisty and absolutely riveting plot ... plus a strong and compelling female heroine. You won't be able to put this one down!' Lisa Scottoline

'Clever, well-written and twistier than a can of silly-string. You absolutely need to read The Holdout!' Emma Kavanagh

'Amazing thriller, deserves to be one of the biggest books of 2020' Michelle Davies

'Terrific, twisty and well-structured thriller' Adele Geras

Recenzii

Plunge a syringe filled with adrenaline into the heart of Twelve Angry Men and you've got The Holdout: the first legal thriller thirty years - ever since Presumed Innocent and A Time to Kill electrified readers the world over - to rank alongside those two modern classics. But Graham Moore's novel is so much more than exhilarating courtroom blood sport: it's a provocative, urgent inquiry into American justice (and injustice) in the twenty-first century; it's a witty battle of the sexes; it's a compassionate character study; it's a fiendishly slippery game of cat-and-mouse suspense. Whether you're a fan of Harper Lee or Lisa Scottoline, if you loved The Lincoln Lawyer or Defending Jacob - or even if you didn't! - The Holdout will astonish you. It sure as hell astonished me.
Quite the tour de force! Twelve Angry Men meets Chinatown and creates something of its own
The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade
Graham Moore's heart beats on every page of THE HOLDOUT, a murder trial as only he could have written it: secrets and lies, mysteries upon mysteries, and a cast of characters each with their own dubious motives. This is a tense, emotionally charged, scary-good, stand-out read that hooked me till the last page.
Wow! I loved THE HOLDOUT, in which author Graham Moore does the impossible, creating a page-turning legal thriller with a twisty and absolutely riveting plot, as well as raising profound and though-provoking questions about the jury system and modern justice. All that, plus a strong and compelling female heroine in lawyer Maya Searle, whom you'll root for as the tables turn against her and she finds herself behind bars, with everything on the line. You won't be able to put this one down!
Clever, well-written and twistier than a can of silly-string. You absolutely need to read The Holdout! I could not put it down.
Stayed up late to finish The Holdout. Still in shock this morning ... I didn't see that ending coming! Amazing thriller, deserves to be one of the biggest books of 2020.
Terrific twisty and well-structured thriller.
A gripping read with real psychological tension. *BOOK OF THE WEEK*
Moore's background as a screenwriter might explain his accomplished plotting; but he excels, too, at in-depth characterisation. *Thriller of the Month*
Written in snappy chapters, and short, bullish sentences, this is a lot of (silly, gripping) fun.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game has produced one of the best legal thrillers in recent years. It is as elegant and gripping as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore has fashioned an adrenalin-charged and compulsively readable legal thriller complete with a killer twist.
Rivals the best of John Grisham and Scott Turow. Highly reccommended!