![]() While taking a deep dive into the ups and downs of a complicated big-time trial, Turow ( Testimony, 2017, etc.) crafts a love letter to his profession through his elegiac appreciation of Stern, who has appeared in all his Kindle County novels. Working for one final time alongside his daughter and proficient legal partner, Marta, who has announced she will close the firm and retire along with her father following the case, Stern must deal not only with "senior moments" before Chief Judge Sonya "Sonny" Klonsky, but also his physical frailty. The 78-year-old Nobelist is a serial adulterer whose former and current lovers have strong ties to the case. His counselor is certain he sold stock in the company that produced the drug, g-Livia, before users' deaths were reported. ![]() An Argentine émigré like Stern, Pafko is no angel. Trying his final case at 85, celebrated criminal defense lawyer Sandy Stern defends a Nobel-winning doctor and longtime friend whose cancer wonder drug saved Stern's life but subsequently led to the deaths of others.įederal prosecutors are charging the eminent doctor, Kiril Pafko, with murder, fraud, and insider trading. ![]()
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