The Legal Limit
Author: Clark, Martin
ISBN: 9780307388667
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 02 Jun 2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback / softback
A dark and gripping novel of two brothers and the murder they hid, taken from Clark's real life as a circuit court judge. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES.BR>BR>Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear.br>br>Intricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, b>The Legal Limit/b> is an exploration of the judicial system's roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law.
ISBN: 9780307388667
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 02 Jun 2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback / softback
A dark and gripping novel of two brothers and the murder they hid, taken from Clark's real life as a circuit court judge. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES.BR>BR>Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear.br>br>Intricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, b>The Legal Limit/b> is an exploration of the judicial system's roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law.
