REVERSIBLE ERRORS

Trurow, Scott

ISBN 10: 0374281602 / ISBN 13: 9780374281601

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2002

About this Item

SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black quarter cloth over brown boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by Daniel Lee, 433 pages + [2] Note. SIGNED & in Exceptional Condition! Scott Frederick Turow (born 1949) is an American author of legal thrillers and a lawyer. He has written nine fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been widely translated and that have sold more than 30 million copies. Films have been based on several of his works. After leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office, Turow wrote the legal thrillers Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and Personal Injuries, which Time magazine named as the Best Fiction Novel of 1999. All four became bestsellers. Turow won several literary awards, most notably the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers' Association.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: REVERSIBLE ERRORS
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374281602
• ISBN 13: 9780374281601
• Binding: Cloth and boards
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Legal Thriller

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Synopsis

A super-charged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it

Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph.

Arthur's opponent in the case is Muriel Wynn, Kindle County's formidable chief deputy prosecuting attorney, who is considering a run for her boss's job. Muriel and Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, don't want to see Rommy escape a fate they long ago determined he deserved, for a host of reasons. Further complicating the situation is the fact that Gillian Sullivan, the judge who originally found Rommy guilty, is only recently out of prison herself, having served time for taking bribes.

Scott Turow's compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of police and small-time crooks, airline executives and sophisticated scammers--and lawyers of all stripes. No other writer offers such a convincing true-to-life picture of how the law and life interact, or such a profound understanding of what is at stake--personally, professionally, and morally--when the state holds the power to end a man's life.

About the Author

Scott Turow is the author of worldwide bestselling novels including Presumed Innocent, Innocent, Ordinary Heroes, The Burden of Proof, and Limitations. His works of nonfiction include One L, his journal from his first year at law school, and Ultimate Punishment, which he wrote after serving on the Illinois commission that investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office. Ultimate Punishment won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He lives outside Chicago, where he is partner in the firm of SNR Denton (formerly Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal).