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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.

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"Scott Turow's new novel is the dedicated fiction-reader's version of El Dorado: a driving, unputdownable courtroom drama/murder mystery that is also a literary treasure, written in language that sparkles with clarity and resonates with honest character insight. I came away feeling amazed and fulfilled, as we only do when we read novelists at the height of their powers. Put this one on your don't-miss list."
-Stephen King

"Mesmerizing prose and intricate plotting lift Turow's superlative legal thriller, his best novel since his bestselling debut, Presumed Innocent to which this is a sequel...Once again, Turow displays an uncanny ability for making the passions and contradictions of his main characters accessible and understandable.―Publisher's Weekly

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Scott Turow is the author of eleven bestselling works of fiction, including Identical, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, and two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition (May 10, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0446562416
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0446562416
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.25 x 8 inches

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Scott Turow was born in Chicago in 1949. He graduated with high honors from Amherst College in 1970, receiving a fellowship to Stanford University Creative Writing Center which he attended from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1975 Turow taught creative writing at Stanford. In 1975, he entered Harvard Law School, graduating with honors in 1978. From 1978 to 1986, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, serving as lead prosecutor in several high-visibility federal trials investigating corruption in the Illinois judiciary. In 1995, in a major pro bono legal effort he won a reversal in the murder conviction of a man who had spent 11 years in prison, many of them on death row, for a crime another man confessed to.

Today, he is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal an international law firm, where his practice centers on white-collar criminal litigation and involves representation of individuals and companies in all phases of criminal matters. Turow lives outside Chicago

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A whodunit that does it again

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2010

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Talk about pushing your luck, Scott Turow's new novel "Innocent" is a repeat performance that elevates the notion "twice wise" to a whole new level.

First, the question becomes can Turow pull it off again? "Innocent" entangles pretty much the same cast of characters in essentially the same situation that "Presumed Innocent" did so successfully two decades ago. Does he score again? Quick answer, yes.

Looking in from a different angle - from the story's point of view - how could Rusty Sabich now 60 and chief appeals court judge in Kindle County, Ill. and candidate for the Illinois Supreme Court possibly get himself caught the same snare as he did once before?

His disastrous misdeed-redux is to become passionately involved again in an extra-marital affair, once more with a colleague. And once again tragedy follows.

For Sabich, vitality beginning to ebb and mortality in the wings waiting, the affair with his former law clerk Anna Vostic becomes what he thinks is his last chance to really feel alive: "How, my heart shrieks, how can I be doing this again? How can any human being make another time the same mistake that all but ruined his life? Knowing the likelihood of one more catastrophe? I ask myself these questions with every step. But the answer is always the same: Because what has lain between then and now - because that time is not fully deserving of being called living."

It has been 22 years since Sabich walked, after being charged with the brutal murder of his lover and co-worker Carolyn Polhemus. Since then, Sabich and his wife Barbara have settled for the most part into a life of acceptance and accommodation, tethered to a fractured marriage by love for their son Nat.

The book opens with a riveting tableau that has Sabich waking at half past six in the morning with Barbara dead beside him "her skin as cool as clay. Her limbs were already moving in a piece, like a mannequin's." It is one of the story's many mysteries why Sabich then waits for 24 hours before calling authorities or notifying his son.

At first Barbara's death is ruled to have been caused by cardiac arrhythmia, a plausible explanation because she had a history of high blood pressure and her father died early of heart failure. Jim Brand, a pit bull of a prosecutor, suspects otherwise. Stoked by a long-standing hatred for Sabich, Brand builds a circumstantial case that Sabich was having an affair and gave his wife a fatal dose of medication rather than go through the mess of a divorce.

Brand's boss, Tommy Molto, who prosecuted Sabich last time around, is wary. Brand pursues, circumstances pile up and evidence is uncovered. A seemingly solid case is constructed and Sabich is back in the courtroom on trial again for a murder he may or may not have committed. Once again stalwart defense attorney Sandy Stern, now almost hobbled by cancer and arthritis, is there to counter every one of the prosecution's punches.

As fast as the circumstantial evidence builds, the plot contrivances and coincidences stack up. For instance, contemplative son Nat is now having his own romantic entanglement with the impossibly alluring Anna Vostic. However, halfway through the book when court is called to order, all things not plausible no longer seem to matter.

Turow is at his best and most thrilling in the courtroom where from every convincing legal argument springs an equally persuasive and compelling counterclaim. Turow's courtroom is a place where there is never a lack of brilliant legal strategy and lawyerly finesse. But as the evidence is presented, it is happenstance as much as truth and justice that weighs most upon the outcome.

Early on Sabich thinks, "I have done a lot in the name of the law that history - and I - have come to regret." Despite his lapses, legal and moral, even with the uncertainty over his guilt or innocence, we root for Sabich with a genuine concern for what will happen to him. That empathy is what gives "Innocent" its suspense and ultimately what makes it gripping.

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Lesser Turow

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2010

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If he didn't invent the genre, he certainly helped to establish it as the money-making industry it has become. When "Presumed Innocent" was published in 1987, its author, Scott Turow, was best known for his personal account of the first year of law school at Harvard. "One L" has since become almost required reading for all wannabe attorneys, although the law school scene has changed (softened) considerably in the intervening years.

But with his first novel, Turow really became famous. The book was a true legal thriller, with a story that wasn't resolved until the last few pages, and then only with the kind of shocking revelation that left readers both amazed and intrigued. The book became a national sensation and was soon produced as a film starring Harrison Ford that became an even bigger hit.

Turow's style in his early novels (he has now penned nine) was to create a whodunit built around a character study. And with all due respect to John Grisham and the many others who have made millions with the same format, Turow has always been the best writer in the field.

But as his work matured, he focused less on the whodunit and more on the character, and then not even so much on the character as on the human condition the characters depicted. By "Ordinary Heroes" (2005), he had become much more an author of literary fiction than one of legal thrillers. As such, his works were less popular but more engrossing. They appealed less to fans of Grisham and Patterson and more to avid readers of Updike and Roth.

But fans of the "early" Turow will be pleased to know that in his latest novel, "Innocent," (Grand Central Publishing), he has returned to his roots in a very direct way. This novel literally picks up the story of "Presumed Innocent" 25 years later.

And, just as in the first novel, we again meet Rusty Sabich (the Harrison Ford character in the movie) who is now 60, not 35, but who again is on trial for murder, this time of his wife, not his mistress. And, lest you assume the title gives away the story, rest assured that this book is every bit the page turner that the first one was, if only slightly less shocking in its denouement.

The novel could easily be envisioned as a feature length film. It has a role for a very virile older male and a very attractive younger female. Yes, for those who recall the first novel, Rusty has once again found himself irresistibly attracted to a young associate. And their bedroom liaisons are certainly the kind of fare that many filmgoers would find appealing.

What might be less appealing, and yet still transfixing, is how that relationship ultimately results in the murder charges that Rusty faces for the balance of the book.

Turow tells his story through four central characters, each of whom might represent an element of that human condition he's explored so effectively in his more recent books. But there is less of that kind of contemplation here, and much more machination of legal procedures and soap opera emotions.

In that respect, this is lesser Turow, less literary and less compelling than the writer his many fans have come to respect. Most certainly, he can still tell a good tale, and "Innocent" is hardly a book to avoid or dislike. In fact, for a summer read (on the beach or at the many airports encountered while getting there), this book will be everything most readers would want.

But like his main character, this older Scott Turow doesn't seem to have quite the same passion he once did. He sometimes seems only to be going through the motions.

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Good Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2023

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Just technical enough but not overwhelming. Scott Turow is an accomplished writer. His use of the written language is really entertaining. I'm looking forward to the next story.

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Great story but strange Kindle version

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 22, 2020

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Read other reviewers for the ins and outs of returning to Kindle County at all, and particularly to 20 years ago in a rerun with twists of the Presumed Innocent case. My review will focus instead on the Kindle version I read. It took me a while to realise something strange happened between the originally submitted typescript, the printed book version, and the version that turns up on my Kindle. For one thing the Audible version I sometimes listen to when I want to recap a particularly convoluted part of the novel is not quite the same as the Kindle version. Words are added, missing, or just different. The original word 'on' appears on my Kindle as 'oil'. Some OCR program has been unable to recognise the letter 'n' and see it as 'il'. Go figure, I had better OCR twenty years ago when I last submitted a book for publication. Has the paperback been OCRed by some intern using a free program off the internet? There must be so many proof-read versions of this novel, the writer's, the publishers' to name but two, that it should not be too difficult to get a copy onto my Kindle that is authoritative and correct. Shame on you Amazon. A corrected proof-read copy is not an optional extra (Tick box for proof-read copy at only £1.07 extra. Free for Prime subscribers). Come on now, get your act together.

GreenInk

Hang on in there - you will be rewarded

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 11, 2014

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If you enjoy Scott Turow as I do, then this is another great book to enjoy and savour. If you haven't read it, although not absolutely necessary, it would be very helpful to read "Presumed Innocent" first, or at least watch the great film starring Harrison Ford. This is a sequel and to get the most out of the book, it is important to understand fully the back story and the personalities of the protagonists.

Rusty Sabich v Tommy Molto Round 2. Twenty years on from the murder trial of "Presumed Innocent"; Rusty is yet again on trial for murder, this time for the killing of his wife, and Tommy, egged on by his immediate junior is prosecuting. For me, this is the main weakness of the book; Tommy still bears the scars from the first trial and is reticent about crossing swords with Rusty again, but Jimmy Brand, his number two, eggs him on for reasons which I found unconvincing. I also felt that "Innocent" took a bit too long to get going and I was becoming somewhat irritated by the measured unfolding of events, which were described in minute detail. However, I shouldn't have worried, because once the trial got going, the book went off like a firework and all that painstaking detail became relevant to the many twists and turns of the court proceedings and the fallout from them.

A book made up of great characters whose weaknesses are far more interesting than their strengths I would definitely give this a Highly Recommended badge, despite my reservations.

Hopefully the next instalment of legal intrigue in Kindle County will not be too long coming!

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Time passes.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 6, 2010

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The novel begins `in medias res' with the fact of the death of the mentally unstable Barbara Sabich. The story then unfolds through a multi-viewpoint structure with a non-linear timeline that takes a little getting used to. The narrative is in the `present tense' throughout, and for most characters it is in the first person. The exception is for the acting PA Tommy Molto where close `third person' is used to provide more narrative distance, I suppose.

As the central character Rusty Sabich knows or suspects everything about his wife's death, and as this is primarily a legal thriller with many facts emerging through criminal investigation and through cross-examination - like the earlier novel, Presumed Innocent - any other structure would have been problematic. (Otherwise, it would have been a very short book, or a more linear family saga.)

Turow had crafted a clever novel, full of twists. I enjoyed it immensely. The author renders the emotional terrains of all the viewpoint characters as well as he does the physical settings. If I was very critical, one twist does come close to being `deus ex machina', enabling the author to wrong-step this reader.

The inner voice of Anna is possibly less convincing than that of the other (all males) characters, but even this voice does become more compelling towards the end.

Thematically, the novel explores the plasticity of both the application of law and one's notions of the psyches of others.

As to the readership question: Must `Presumed Innocent' be read (or the film seen) to appreciate `Innocent'? I suspect no - but it would surely be a different experience, one possibly less engaged (with the characters) and definitely less knowing... but perhaps with the latter would be the reward of an even greater sense of mystery.

Five stars from me.

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Miradonna

Very enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 17, 2022

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Having found Scott Turow books late as his Presumed Innocent was recommended to me, I just had to read this follow-up and found it just a good as the previous, if not better in some ways as it was easier to read.

Tom

Not Turow's best but worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 20, 2011

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Scott Turow has written two of the best legal thrillers I have read - Presumed Innocent and Burden of Proof. He does not have a fluent prose style, and I find the internal soul-searching of the main characters a bit hard to take at times. But my goodness at his best, can the man contrive a plot; and his courtroom scenes are just brilliant.

That said, he has written some real turkeys since his glory days, and so I was a tad apprehensive about reading "Innocent". Thankfully, it's not at all bad. the book is a follow-up to "Presumed Innocent" and you really need to have read the latter to get value from the former. Innocent is not as good; the plot doesn't have the same kind of nail biting uncertainty and complexity, and sudden twists, and the trial scenes though good dont form a large part of the book, and are not in the same league as Presumed Innocent. I also find the multiple viewpoints used rather confusing a disruptive of the narrative flow; and his prose hasn't improved.

But it's worth a read, particularly if you enjoyed his earlier books.

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