Presumed Innocent

Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime.This insider book by a Chicago lawyer was one of the great novels of the 1980s selling more than nine million copies and was made into a famous film starring Harrison Ford. Its a supremely suspenseful and compelling courtroom drama about ambition weakness hypocrisy and American justice. Review If you startPresumed Innocent you will finish it - it grips like an octopus and Turow unwinds the plot with brilliant cat-and-mouse meanness ―Sunday TimesPhenomenal... a powerful study of ambition weakness hypocrisy and American justice ―Sunday ExpressImpossible to put down ―Evening StandardA riveting performance ―ObserverPolitics sex and death. Who could ask for anything more? ―Washington Post About the Author Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of eight bestselling works of fiction including this first novelPresumed Innocent the winner of the 1987 Silver Dagger Award and his most recentOrdinary Heroes (2005).Presumed Innocent Reversible Errors and The Burden of Proof have been made into highly successful films. He has been a partner in the Chicago office of law firm Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal since 1986 concentrating on white collar criminal defense.