The last trial [sound recording] /
by Turow, Scott; Slade, Robert.
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SoundPublisher: [Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda/Macmillan audio, 2020Edition: Unabridged.Description: 15 sound discs (CD) (16 hr., 24 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. ; in container.ISBN: 9781529049152.Subject(s): Criminal defense lawyers -- Fiction | Audiobooks | Trials (Fraud)SvFictionRead by Robert Slade.Summary: Already 85 years old and in precarious health, Stern has been persuaded to defend an old friend, Kiril Pafko. A former Nobel Prize-winner in Medicine, Pafko, shockingly, has been charged in a federal racketeering indictment with fraud, insider trading and murder. As the trial progresses, Stern will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend? And he ever know the truth? Stern's duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart. Full of the deep insights into the spaces where the fragility of human nature and the justice system collide, Scott Turow's The Last Trial is a masterful legal thriller that asks the question: how can we measure a life?
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Southport Library | Spoken word Adult fiction | Available | 003000993X |
15 audio CDs.
Duration: 16:24:05.
Read by Robert Slade.
Already 85 years old and in precarious health, Stern has been persuaded to defend an old friend, Kiril Pafko. A former Nobel Prize-winner in Medicine, Pafko, shockingly, has been charged in a federal racketeering indictment with fraud, insider trading and murder. As the trial progresses, Stern will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend? And he ever know the truth? Stern's duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart. Full of the deep insights into the spaces where the fragility of human nature and the justice system collide, Scott Turow's The Last Trial is a masterful legal thriller that asks the question: how can we measure a life?
Adult.
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