![]() ![]() This was not Agatha Christie, this was contemporary America, and Turow's lucid, psychologically penetrating prose approached the high ground of literature. Another knock-out punch is the identity and method of the murderer, about which not another word for those who haven't read the book ![]() Among the twists in the story: The county prosecutor, Rusty Sabich, is the one charged with the murder of his colleague-lover, and a contraceptive device plays a major role in the plot. There was the hype, and there was the book itself - a legal thriller, a story of lust, murder, marriage and political corruption set in an invented Chicago-like place called Kindle County. There was the hard-working-boy-makes-good personal story of the attorney-author writing his first novel over seven years, every morning from 4am to 7am, before he went to work in a downtown Chicago law firm. called it "the best book ever written." Before publication, Sydney Pollack bought the movie rights for $1 million - an amount unheard of at the time. ![]()
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