'Turow's prose is powerful . . . a tough, vivid, urban poetry, singing of ambition and corruption . . . an arresting performance' New York Times
Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague - his firm's star litigator - who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money.
Soon Mack will descend into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city on his final, desperate and courageous crusade to reinvent himself from the depths of his own shattered soul . . .
'Turow lights us through the murky, labyrinthine ways of legal and financial chicanery, drawing us into a treacle-thick plot that mixes embezzlement, conspiracy and high-risk opportunism' Independent