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10年前の判決は冤罪だったのか？しょぼくれ弁護士vs.辣腕女検察官、熾烈な攻防を支える、美貌の元判事と一匹狼の刑事。第1級のエンタテインメントにして、重厚な人間ドラマ。これぞトゥローの真骨頂！
死刑執行まで1ヶ月、弁護人アーサーの前に現れた真犯人と名乗る男。レストランで3人が惨殺され、冷凍庫詰めにされた10年前の事件は振り出しに戻った。麻薬にはまり収賄罪で逮捕された美貌の元判事、野心家の辣腕（らつわん）女検察官、一匹狼の刑事。時を経て、再び交錯する人生。巨匠トゥローが満を持して贈る傑作。
スコット・トゥローは1949年生まれ。シカゴ連邦検察局に検事補として在職中に発表した『推定無罪』は、完璧なプロット、重厚な人物造型で瞠目され、CWA賞を受賞、世界的ベストセラーに。リーガル・サスペンスの先駆者として、以来、『立証責任』『有罪答弁』など傑作を発表してきた。本書は、読者にはおなじみの架空の都市キンドル郡を舞台にした、待望の新作。トゥローは弁護士としても活躍を続けており、死刑問題にも深く関わっている。

死刑執行まで1ヵ月、弁護人アーサーの前に現れた真犯人と名乗る男。レストランで3人が惨殺され、冷凍庫詰めにされた10年前の事件は振り出しに戻った。麻薬にはまり収賄罪で逮捕された美貌の元判事、野心家の辣腕女検察官、一匹狼の刑事。時を経て、再び交錯する人生。巨匠トゥローが満を持して贈る傑作。

Arthur Raven, more versed in corporate law than criminal defense, is not eager to accept the court-appointed task of handling death-row inmate "Squirrel" Gandolph's last-minute appeal of his murder conviction. Fast approaching middle age, Arthur has come to terms with the burdens and disappointments of his life, among which are a schizophrenic sister for whom he is responsible and the realization that he will probably never make an enduring connection with a woman. But when evidence surfaces that might exonerate his client, he rises to the occasion with a quiet determination to see justice done. Facing a formidable prosecuting attorney and her former lover, the policeman whose testimony convinced Judge Gillian Sullivan to find Squirrel guilty, Arthur's persistence not only wins his client a temporary reprieve from execution but also endears him to Sullivan, who has fallen on hard times since Squirrel's trial--fresh out of prison herself for taking bribes, she is a most unlikely candidate for Arthur's affections. Scott Turow's masterful characterization of complex and multidimensional people catalyzed by events into searching reexamination of their own motives and ambitions is matched by the intricacies of his plot, which itself is well served by his insider's knowledge of the criminal justice system and his extraordinary understanding of the vagaries of the human heart. The prose is luminescent, the narrative compelling, and the moral implications of Arthur's personal and professional choices beautifully articulated. This is a tour de force for a novelist writing at the top of his game. --Jane Adams
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The sixth novel from bestseller Turow is a big book about little people in big trouble, involving the death penalty (one of the author's real-life legal specialties), procedural foul-ups and a cast of characters who exemplify the adage about good intentions paving the road to hell. Arthur Raven (a middle-aged, undistinguished lawyer taking care of a schizophrenic sister in a suburb of Chicago) lands a career-making case: the 11th-hour appeal of a quasi-retarded death row inmate, Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph (accused of triple homicide a decade earlier), on new testimony by a terminally ill convict. Muriel Wynn, an ambitious prosecutor, and Larry Starczek, the detective who originally worked the case, are Raven's adversaries. Plot thickener: Wynn and Starczek are engaged in a longstanding, tortuous, off-again, on-again affair (both being unhappily married) that predates the crime, and which may have indirectly influenced the course of the original investigation. Arthur pulls in the original presiding judge from the case, Gillian Sullivan, just emerging from her own prison stretch for bribery (which masks an even darker secret) to assist him on the case, which leads to another tortuous affair on the defense's side. On top of this (Turow is well known for his many-layered narratives) is the dynamic among the criminals themselves: the dying con may be covering up for his wayward nephew, further muddying the legal waters. The first part of the book, which flips back and forth between the original investigation (1991) and the new trial (2001), is structurally the most demanding, but it is vital to the way in which Turow makes Rommy's case (as well as Arthur's and Muriel's). No character in this novel is entirely likable; all seek to undo some past wrong, with results that get progressively worse. Turow fans should not be disappointed; nor should his publisher.
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A super-charged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it

Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph.

Arthur's opponent in the case is Muriel Wynn, Kindle County's formidable chief deputy prosecuting attorney, who is considering a run for her boss's job. Muriel and Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, don't want to see Rommy escape a fate they long ago determined he deserved, for a host of reasons. Further complicating the situation is the fact that Gillian Sullivan, the judge who originally found Rommy guilty, is only recently out of prison herself, having served time for taking bribes.

Scott Turow's compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of police and small-time crooks, airline executives and sophisticated scammers--and lawyers of all stripes. No other writer offers such a convincing true-to-life picture of how the law and life interact, or such a profound understanding of what is at stake--personally, professionally, and morally--when the state holds the power to end a man's life.



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Scott Turow's five previous novels have all been major bestsellers. America's most distinguished writer about the law is also a leading lawyer in his native Chicago, where he has been frequently involved with death penalty litigation.

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トゥロー,スコット
1949年、シカゴ生まれ。スタンフォード大学大学院で創作を学び、同校の講師を務めた後に法律の分野を志す。ハーヴァード・ロー・スクールを卒業、シカゴ地区の連邦検察局に検事補として在職中の’87年『推定無罪』を発表、世界的なベストセラーとなる。同書はCWAシルヴァー・ダガー賞を受賞。現在も、シカゴで法律事務所のパートナー弁護士を務めながら、執筆を行う。重厚で魅力的な人物造型、読み応えあるストーリー展開は、他のリーガル・サスペンス作品の追随を許さない

佐藤 耕士
1958年生まれ。上智大学文学部英文科卒業(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)