The Last Innocent Man - Hardcover

Margolin, Phillip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316546178 ISBN 13: 9780316546171

Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., 1981

Synopsis

A successful young criminal lawyer, questioning his career, takes on the defense of a fellow lawyer accused of murder and finds he must choose between justice and the law

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A brilliant lawyer. A dangerous affair. A brutal murder. And a client who just might be...

The Last Innocent Man

David Nash, defense attorney. The papers call him the Ice Man -- cool, unruffled, practically invincible in the courtroom. Most of the clients he defends are guilty. A few may even be monsters. Suddenly the Ice Man is assailed by doubts and unanswerable questions. What is the cost of each victory, each rapist or murderer set free -- to society and to Nash's soul? Then, along comes a case that may be Nash's redemption. A rising lawyer and family man is accused of the brutal murder of an undercover vice cop.

Finally, a client whose innocence Nash can believe in. But as the case moves toward trial, new doubts grip him: What is truth and what is carefully fabricated falsehood? Is Nash, a master at handling juries, being manipulated himself? By the time Nash's perfect case is finished, the questions become a matter of life and death.

From the Back Cover:

"Jampacked plot... (Margolin) shows us... the difficulties of lawyers as people practicing in a system of justice which is the same for the guilty and the innocent... and exposes the costs paid by a conscientious lawyer in the coin of human feeling." -- The Washington Post.

"Exciting stumper, high pitched courtroom drama." -- Booklist.

"An intricate tale that weighs guilt, justice, and the law, this book also has plenty of action and drama. A real spellbinder." -- Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0316546178
• ISBN 13: 9780316546171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243