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Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-eight years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide.
Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see sixteen-year-old Marcie Calder alive, and as shocking forensic evidence at the trial reveals, he is the father of her unborn child.
Probing the darkest recesses of love and friendship, Lord will discover things too disturbing to ignore--that Sam wasn't the only one in Lake City with a motive for killing Marcie, that small-town secrets can hide devastating betrayals, and that the past has a way of repeating itself . . . even in murder.
Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see sixteen-year-old Marcie Calder alive, and as shocking forensic evidence at the trial reveals, he is the father of her unborn child.
Probing the darkest recesses of love and friendship, Lord will discover things too disturbing to ignore--that Sam wasn't the only one in Lake City with a motive for killing Marcie, that small-town secrets can hide devastating betrayals, and that the past has a way of repeating itself . . . even in murder.
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In each successive novel since Degree of Guilt, Richard North Patterson has experimented with flashbacks and past tragedies to drive the present suspense of his legal thrillers. Silent Witness is, perhaps, his greatest achievement with the technique as his hero, Tony Lord, is haunted by the 27-year-old murder of his high school girlfriend, Alison Taylor.
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In the late 1960s, Tony is the star of the Lake City, Ohio, high school football team. But when Alison is found strangled behind her house, even Tony's closest friend, Sam Robb, suspects him. Alison's true killer is never found, and Tony flees his home town to forge a career as a high-powered, high-profile San Francisco criminal attorney and marries a a movie star. Cutting to the present day, Tony is called back to Lake City to defend his old friend. Sixteen-year-old track star Marcie Calder was found dead on the shore of Lake Erie, and Sam, now the overweight assistant principal and track coach of Lake City High, is the accused. A series of scandals slowly erodes Tony's confidence in Sam's innocence as Tony comes to terms with his own troubled past.
As with Patterson's previous work, Silent Witness is a novel with subtle characters who happen to be involved in a compelling (and authentic-seeming) criminal trial. For dedicated Patterson fans, some insight into the life of actress Stacey Tarrant is a special treat. She's Tony's wife in the present world of the novel but was the lover of Senator James Kilcannon before the senator was assassinated. James was the brother of Kerry Kilcannon, the enigmatic presidential candidate at the center of Patterson's 1998 blockbuster, No Safe Place. --Patrick O'Kelley
"This generation's best writer of legal thrillers . . . His strongest fiction to date."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Enthralling . . . The denouement is powerful."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Intense courtroom drama . . . As startling as the bang of a gavel."
--People
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"Enthralling . . . The denouement is powerful."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Intense courtroom drama . . . As startling as the bang of a gavel."
--People
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- ISBN 13 9780091792008
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 493 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Tony Lord And Sam Robb, Both In Their Teens, Are Best Friends And Athletic Rivals. Twenty Eight Years Later, Tony Is A Successful Attorney: Sam Is An Assistant Principal At Lake City High School. Sam Has Never Left Home, And Tony Has Never Returned Since The Trauma That Changed His Life: The Brutal Murder Of His First Love, Alison, Of Which He Was Wrongly Accused And Which Turned Everyone, Even Sam Against Him. Now Sam Is A Suspect. One Of His Female Students Has Been Murdered. Tony, Reluctantly But Inevitably, Comes Back To Defend Him. Seller Inventory # 119200
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