The Legal Limit

Clark, Martin

ISBN 10: 0307268357 / ISBN 13: 9780307268358

Published by Knopf, New York, 2008

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SIGNED on title: "To Pat + Ponder Henley -- Martin Clark". As new in like dust jacket. A very attractive copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Legal Limit
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307268357
• ISBN 13: 9780307268358
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Martin Clark’s most remarkable novel yet is the gripping, complex story of a murder cover-up that wreaks widespread havoc even as it redefines the concept of justice—a relentlessly entertaining saga that delves deeply into matters at once ambiguous and essential.

While Gates Hunt chose to fight his abusive father head-on, his younger brother, Mason, eventually escaped their bitter, impoverished circumstances by earning a free ride to college and law school. And while Gates became an intransigent, compulsive felon, Mason met and married the love of his life, had a spitfire daughter, and returned to his rural hometown as the commonwealth’s attorney. But Mason’s idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward his life further unravels when Gates, convinced that his brother’s legal influence should spring him from prison, attempts to force his cooperation by means of a secret they’d both sworn to take with them to the grave. And with his closest friend and staunch ally suddenly threatened by secrets of his own, Mason ultimately finds himself facing complete ruin and desperately defending everything and everyone he holds dear.

Intricately plotted and shot through with authenticity, The Legal Limit is a roller coaster of moral relevance. What should govern our actions when family loyalty challenges personal integrity, when the letter of the law defies its spirit, and when fate plays dice with our best endeavors?

About the Author

Martin Clark’s first novel, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award. His second novel, Plain Heathen Mischief, prompted The Charlotte Observer to call him “a rising star in American Letters.” A circuit court judge, he lives in Stuart, Virginia, with his wife, Deana.