Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
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Author: Scott TurowEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-12-01
ISBN: 0446676446
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780446676441
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "I never presumed that...an idea was so special that...using it, ...guaranteed...the quality of the music." R. Morris
Summary: 4 Stars
4 1/2 stars.
Raymond Hogan is running for re-election to the Kindle County Prosecutor's office. He is challenged by Nico Della Guardia, who is winning the race.
Rusty Sabich is Hogan's deputy prosecutor and the narrator of the story. When Carolyn Polhemus, a prosecutor on their staff, is found raped and murdered, Hogan asks Rusty to run the investigation. The investigation goes slowly. Nico uses the slowness and the fact that the Prosecutor can't find a murderer of someone who worked with him, to gain more popularity in the polls.
Rusty conveys how cold and uncaring his wife, Barbara, had become. Not only avoiding him, when Barbara found that Rusty was going to run the investigation into Carolyn's death, she had known that Rusty had been seeing Carolyn and Barbara asks Rusty to move out of the house.
In the first segment of the novel, we follow Rusty's involvement with Carolyn and how she became the aggressor in the relationship but then suddenly ended their affair. When she avoids Rusty but then starts seeing Hogan, Rusty becmes withdrawn. Later, when Rusty is investigating the case, Hogan admits that he was also sleeping with Carolyn. The political race goes badly for Hogan, partly due to the slow moving investigation.
This section ends with a very cinimatic and suspenseful scene in Raymond Hogan's office. Hogan conveys that he will be leaving his office almost immediately and then an arrogant Tommy Motto, who is Nico's second in command, tells Rusty that they will be inditing him and he, Motto, has evidence that Rusty was in Carolyn's home on the night of her murder.
The next part of the novel depicts the court case. Sandy Stern is a masterful defense attorney for Rusty and he becomes a father figure and like an old, knowledgable professor. Rusty is also helped by Dan Lipanzer, a police investigator, who had been his friend for years.
Other than that, Rusty's old friends shun him. When Hogan becomes a witness against Rusty, it is almost as if Rusty's oldest friend has betrayed him.
There are courtroom scenes that will linger in the reader's memory for a long time. The characters were well depicted and the pacing just right. I did feel that a seventy page segment after the trial when we learn of what happened to Rusty and Barbara and other characters was too long and this was the only factor that made my rating less than five stars.
Overall, this was an enjoyable and highly entertaining novel.
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