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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Second Chair (2004)di John Lescroart
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Es handelt sich um einen klassischen amerikanischen Anwalts-Gerichts-Krimi. Eigentlich ist das Buch Teil einer Serie und vermutlich wäre es besser, die anderen Teile zu kennen. Aber man kann es auch so lesen. Die junge Anwältin Amy Wu wird zu ihrem ersten Mordfall engagiert. Ein siebzehnjähriger Junge hat vermutlich seinen Lehrer und seine Freundin erschossen. Die Beweislast ist erdrückend, der Staatsanwalt gerecht, aber unerbittlich. Amy versucht, den Jungen dazu zu bringen, dass er gesteht, dann könnte er wenigstens nach Jugendstrafrecht verurteilt werden. Aber der Junge gesteht nicht, sondern beteuert seine Unschuld. Langsam räumt Amy ein, dass er vielleicht tatsächlich unschuldig sein könnte. Anfangs zieht sich das Buch etwas, aber ab dem Moment, an dem man Andrew näher kennen lernt, springt der Funke über. Die Personen sind nämlich für mich erstaunlich plastisch und greifbar. Also ist mein Fazit, dass es sich hier um einen soliden Gerichtsthriller handelt. Ob ich von dem Autor aber mehr lesen möchte, kann ich noch nicht sagen. I really enjoyed this one. It is a mystery with enough clues to allow the reader to guess the villain without being terribly disappointed by the ending. I've read most of the books in the Dismas Hardy series, and this is one of the more believable, action-packed stories, with substantial character development of Amy Wu and others besides the usual insights and foibles of Hardy and Glitsky. Hardy & Glitsky age throughout the series so this would not be the best place to start. I recommend going back at least as far as book 3, Hard Evidence This is an important book. The genre is what they call "legal thriller": there is a defense lawyer and a kid accused of murder. Can the lawyer save the kid? Did the kid commit the crime? The setting is very classic. What is worthwhile is that every character has flaws, and the flaws impact the story: the lawyer drinks too much and it makes her overconfident. The judge is pissed off, so he tends to punish the accused, not the lawyer. The accused kid is like all teenagers; a bad liar, and it has consequences. It makes of this an original book and a pleasure to read. I also like that the subject of how we define justice is at the heart of the story. Is justice about working within "the system" or about the truth? Does the truth matter? Should it matter to a lawyer? Can a lawyer who has heard hundreds of clients say "I am innocent" while they were all guilty keep an open mind? Is that even possible? It is a real question. I visited people in jail many times, and the most discouraging aspect of it is that every prisoner has a good explanation and a good excuse. It is not just that these prisoners have no sense of responsibility, it is OUR human nature: we are not all going to jail, but all have good excuses for what we do wrong. There are a few minor choices in the plot construction that I disagree with, but no matter: I enjoy this. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:#1 New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart weaves together a story of a privileged youth on trial for murder and an entire city on the brink of panic in this suspensful and stylish Dismas Hardy legal thriller. Although he appears to have reached the top, Dismas Hardy, rainmaker and managing partner of his thriving San Francisco law firm, has lost his faith in the justice system. When his young associate, Amy Wu, brings in a high profile, controversial double murder case, he decides to sit second chairâ??in defense of a wealthy, privileged young man even he has trouble believing. At the same time, Hardyâ??s friend Abe Glitsky has just been promoted to deputy chief of the Investigations Bureau, and has trouble of his own. Hounded by a hostile media, distanced from day-to-day police work, Glitsky must struggle against a wave of violence that has put the city on the verge of panic. As the tension builds around them, Hardy and Amyâ??s search for the truth will take them down a perilous path, and force Hardy to face his own demons in order to clear his clientâ??and s Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This book, like most of them, starts off with some poor, undeserving soul getting into deep trouble, where things look very bleak to impossible. Sometimes Hardy's clients are so apparently guilty that even his friend Glitsky won't believe that he's not simply trying to get a guilty client off. In this story, the client is a 17 year old boy charged with a double homicide. He's been carrying a gun around for weeks, he was writing a book that described the crime almost exactly, etc. He's looking at life without parole, and facing a best case of 8 years incarceration. Even his lawyer is sure he's guilty. Sad, but no problem - Dismas Hardy comes to the rescue, as usual. ( )