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TESTIMONY

Scott Turow

In the tradition of "Presumed Innocent", Turow's new courtroom thriller is set at the International Criminal Court in Den Haag. An American prosecutor investigates a case of massacre committed in Bosnia during the chaos of the Balkan War. Serb paramilitaries, organized crime gangs and the US government are this thriller's prime suspects.
Bill 'Ten' Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Kosovo refugee camp—unsolved for ten years—he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian War, Boom must navigate a host of suspects ranging from Serb paramilitaries to organized crime gangs to the U.S. government, while also navigating the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Morgan Merriwell, a disgraced U. S. Brigadier General; Ferka Drnic, the massacre's sole survivor; and Esma Czarni, a seductive barrister. Scott Turow is the author of 10 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 25 languages, sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into film and television projects. He frequently contributes essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy, and The Atlantic.
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Published 2017-05-23 by Grand Central Publishing

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UK: Macmillan ; Holland: Prometheus ; Italy: Mondadori ; Israel: Arie Nir ; Finland: Art House ; France: JC Lattes ; China: Beijing Fonghong Books ; Brazil: Record ; Portugal: Bertrand ; Greece: Oceanida

Turow successfully recreates the roiling uncertainty of the Bosnian conflict and its consequences, the stew of racism, military aggression and crime, the willingness of ordinary people to visit spectacular cruelty on their neighbors in obedience to ethnic enmities centuries old. TESTIMONY is admirable and important.

“The master of the courtroom drama, Scott Turow's latest legal thriller goes international and is a page turner not to be missed!”

TESTIMONY is Scott Turow's most ambitious and complex work - which takes us from the gritty familiarity of his beloved Kindle County into a mysterious world of international intrigue. It's the best kind of thriller, which stimulates the mind as well as thrilling the heart.

[An] engrossing new page-turner... Turow has created a compelling, all-consuming drama that maintains the themes that thread through his fiction: the contradictions and conflicts of characters with secrets, often from themselves, and how idealism can be shaken when law, politics, and capitalism mix to distort fairness and justice.

If there were a Mount Rushmore for the modern legal thriller, Scott Turow would be one of the novelists immortalized in granite.