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A review by skinnypenguin
Testimony by Scott Turow
3.0
Received this from the Goodreads Giveaways.
Quite an involved story that was hard to keep all the people straight at times. It is set in The Hague and Bosnia. Bill ten Boom quits his private law practice and goes to work for the International Criminal Court and is working on a case where supposedly 400 Roma have been killed in Bosnia. He is at a crossroads in his life. Sounds like a mid life crisis. He is divorced and reestablishing good relations with his children and feels like it is time for something different. During the course of his investigations into this case he hooks up with two different women, one who is working with him and the other is his landlord. Many of the other characters in the book all seem to have their own problems and/or quirks and he deals with those along the way. He is lied to multiple times by multiple people and you just never know who to believe.
The story deals with things that could have happened during and after the civil war in Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, etc. Talks about the persecution of the Roma (gypsies) and peoples perception of them. Lots of discussion about international laws and how they pertain to the U.S. Alludes to possible behind the scenes dealings the U. S. does.
Quite an involved story that was hard to keep all the people straight at times. It is set in The Hague and Bosnia. Bill ten Boom quits his private law practice and goes to work for the International Criminal Court and is working on a case where supposedly 400 Roma have been killed in Bosnia. He is at a crossroads in his life. Sounds like a mid life crisis. He is divorced and reestablishing good relations with his children and feels like it is time for something different. During the course of his investigations into this case he hooks up with two different women, one who is working with him and the other is his landlord. Many of the other characters in the book all seem to have their own problems and/or quirks and he deals with those along the way. He is lied to multiple times by multiple people and you just never know who to believe.
The story deals with things that could have happened during and after the civil war in Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, etc. Talks about the persecution of the Roma (gypsies) and peoples perception of them. Lots of discussion about international laws and how they pertain to the U.S. Alludes to possible behind the scenes dealings the U. S. does.