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Goodreads Summary:  "Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancée, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd always refused to talk about his war. As he pieces together his father's past through military archives, letters, and, finally, notes from a memoir his father wrote while in prison, secretly preserved by the officer who defended him, Stewart starts to assemble a dramatic and baffling chain of events. He learns how Dubin, a JAG lawyer attached to Patton's Third Army and desperate for combat experien...

The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent , INNOCENT continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife.   Rusty Sabich, chief judge of the appellate court was acquitted of murder 20 years earlier. Rusty's wife has died, and the Prosecuting Attorney, Tommy Molto, who lost the case 20 years earlier, is now going to try Rusty for the murder of Rusty's wife. Did he do it or didn't he?  Was the DA just out to get Rusty or did he truly believe that Rusty killed his wife?  A riveting story as a continuation to Presumed Innocent.  Turow's writing keeps you wondering all the way up to the end of the book.  A great mystery with lots of twists and turns. Finished:  June 3, 2012

Book cover:  "The Laws of our Fathers Scott Turow's most powerful novel to date, opens with a spectacular drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most notorious drug-plagued housing projects.  The victim is an aging white woman who has never been seen there before; within days her son, Nile Eddgar, a probation officer, is charged in connection with the crime - and the reader falls gratefully once more under the hypnotic spell that only Scott Turow can cast. Nile's trials is presided over - and narrated by - Judge Sonia "Sonny" Klonsky, whom Turow's fans will remember from his second novel, The Burden of Proof.  It brings together a vivid cast of characters from Sonny's student years during the turbulent sixties, among them Nile's father, Loyell Eddgar, once a leading campus revolutionary, and Sonny's old boyfriend Seth Weissman, who is now a renowned journalist.  All have been permanently marked by the heady iconoclasm of their youth; so...