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A review by ncrabb
High Crimes by Joseph Finder
4.0
Claire Heller teaches at Harvard's law school. She's married to a highly
successful broker, and life in Boston is opulent and good. Claire has
gained tremendous notoriety as the attorney who freed a convicted rapist on
a legal technicality.
On a memorable night when the little family is eating at a Boston
restaurant, law enforcement officials literally storm the place and attempt
to take Claire's husband away. He evades them initially, and while they are
looking for him, they fill Claire in on the facts about the man she thought
she had married. Everything she had learned had to be unlearned-or did it?
Military law enforcement officials insist that Claire's husband is a
fugitive from military justice. He participated in the gruesome murder of
87 Vietnamese villagers.
Refusing to believe all she hears, Claire determines to defend her husband
in a military court-something she knows little about-and her nightmare of
discovery relentlessly unfurls.
Although there are no sexual descriptions here, the F-bomb gets dropped a
good bit as does other bits of profanity here and there. This is, after
all, a military court proceeding.
So skillful is this author at creating the plot and characters that you are
pulled in every twisting gut-roiling direction he wants to take you. The
ending was a complete mind blow; I sure didn't see it coming. It's highly
satisfactory, but it's rather surprising really.
successful broker, and life in Boston is opulent and good. Claire has
gained tremendous notoriety as the attorney who freed a convicted rapist on
a legal technicality.
On a memorable night when the little family is eating at a Boston
restaurant, law enforcement officials literally storm the place and attempt
to take Claire's husband away. He evades them initially, and while they are
looking for him, they fill Claire in on the facts about the man she thought
she had married. Everything she had learned had to be unlearned-or did it?
Military law enforcement officials insist that Claire's husband is a
fugitive from military justice. He participated in the gruesome murder of
87 Vietnamese villagers.
Refusing to believe all she hears, Claire determines to defend her husband
in a military court-something she knows little about-and her nightmare of
discovery relentlessly unfurls.
Although there are no sexual descriptions here, the F-bomb gets dropped a
good bit as does other bits of profanity here and there. This is, after
all, a military court proceeding.
So skillful is this author at creating the plot and characters that you are
pulled in every twisting gut-roiling direction he wants to take you. The
ending was a complete mind blow; I sure didn't see it coming. It's highly
satisfactory, but it's rather surprising really.