George Mason has sat on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. His days as a criminal defence lawyer are long behind him.
But when a disturbing rape case is brought before him the judge's life begins to unravel. What is troubling
George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening emails he has started to receive? And what is it about this horrific case of sexual assault, on trial in his courtroom, that has led him to question his fitness to judge?
Scott Turow, the master of the legal thriller, returns to Kindle County with a page-turner that asks the biggest questions of all - the limitations not only of the law, but of human understanding itself.