A supercharged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it.Rommy "Squirrel" Gandloph is an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder. His slow progress toward execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer and Rommy's reluctant representative, receives word of new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph.Arthur's opponent is the formidable prosecuting attorney Muriel Wynn. Together with Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, she is determined to see Rommy's fate sealed. Meanwhile the judge who originally found him guilty is just out of prison herself.Scott Turow's compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of weary police, small-time crooks and ambitious lawyers. No other writer offers such a convincing picture of how the law and life interact - or such a profound understanding of what is at stake when the state holds the power to end a man's life.
- ISBN10 0374281602
- ISBN13 9780374281601
- Publish Date 1 November 2002 (first published 13 August 1957)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English