High Crimes - Softcover

Finder, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752842463 ISBN 13: 9780752842462

Publisher: Orion mass market paperback, 2002

Synopsis

Claire Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She's a Harvard Law professor and criminal defense attorney known for taking on - and winning - tough cases. She's also happily married to Tom, and has a six-year-old daughter she adores. Then Tom is arrested by a team of government agents and accused of a 13-year-old wartime atrocity he insists he didn't commit. Claire soon discovers that her husband is not who he says he is, that once he had a different name, even a different face. Now Claire must defend Tom in a top-secret military court-marshal. As her career, and even her life, are put in jeopardy, she must try to believe in her husband's innocence - even when everything indicates that he is a killer

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Review

When (not if---the deal has already been signed) this terrific thriller gets made into a movie, you might see Morgan Freeman as a crusty lawyer who specializes in taking on the military establishment tell the actress playing ace Boston barrister and Harvard Law professor Claire Heller Chapman, "Every civilian who's ever gone into a military general court-martial and tried to attack the foundations of the military has lost his case. No exceptions. The military is a tight, closed fraternity. They take it real serious. Military justice is a deadly serious business." Claire has to realize this as she prepares to defend her husband--the man she knows as Tom Chapman, but who the Army says is Ron Kubik-- on charges that he took part in a massacre of 87 civilians in San Salvador 13 years before. Full of doubts about Tom's innocence and her own ability to prove it in an unfamiliar arena, Claire is brought to exciting, moving life by the extravagantly gifted Joseph Finder, whose previous thrillers (Extraordinary Powers, The Zero Hour) are available in paperback.

From the Back Cover

"Exciting . . . deliciously absorbing . . . full of hair-pin turns." ―The Washington Post

Meet Claire Heller Chapman. A criminal defense attorney who's made a name for herself by taking on―and winning―the toughest cases, Claire still manages to have a relatively calm life as a Harvard Law School professor, devoted wife, and proud mother to six-year-old Annie. Until one night, when the family is out having dinner, a team of government agents bursts onto the scene...heading straight for Claire's husband.

"A powerhouse tale." ―Chicago Tribune

Tom Chapman has been arrested for an atrocious crime he swears he did not commit. Claire is desperate to believe him―and prove his innocence―even when she learns that Tom once had a different name. And a different face. Now, in a top-secret court-martial conducted by the Pentagon, Claire will put everything on the line to defend the man she loves. But as the evidence keeps piling up, the less she knows who her husband really is...and the more he appears to be a cold-blooded murderer.

"Provocative and chilling." ―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion mass market paperback
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0752842463
• ISBN 13: 9780752842462
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384