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Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312677374
- Publisher:
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication date:
- 02/01/2011
- Edition description:
- First Edition
- Pages:
- 432
- Sales rank:
- 147,037
- Product dimensions:
- 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.30(d)
Overview
From the masterful New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar Award-winning author of The Last Child and Down River, comes this tour de force of murder and the dark ripples it sends through a man, his family and community.
Jackson Workman Pickens—known to most as Work—mindlessly holds together his life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife, and a fragile sister, Jean, damaged by the shared past they've endured.
And then Ezra's body is discovered.
Set to inherit his father's fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect. But so does Jean. Fearing the worst, Work launches his own investigation, crossing paths with a power-hungry detective, a string of damning evidence, and the ugly rumors that swirl within his small, moneyed Southern town. Desperate for the redemption that has eluded him for so many years and stripped of everything he once valued, Work fights to save his sister, clear his name, and regain the love of the woman to whom he gave his heart so many years before.
Praise for King of Lies:
"The King of Lies moves and reads like a book on fire." ---Pat Conroy
"Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding." --New York Times
"[An] ambitious debut thriller…a gripping performance." --People Magazine
"Compares favorably to the best of Scott Turow" --Publishers Weekly (starred)
"A striking new talent." --Entertainment Weekly
Editorial Reviews
A powerful, heartrending novel of tragedy, treachery, and -- ultimately -- transcendence, this stellar debut from former lawyer John Hart is a first-class mystery/thriller (à la John Grisham and Scott Turow) that will hit readers like a ton of bricks.
The King of Lies centers on 35-year-old North Carolina defense attorney Jackson Workman "Work" Pickens, the well-to-do son of a prominent local lawyer, whose entire existence unravels when his famous father, missing for 18 months, is found murdered in an abandoned mall. Believing that his emotionally unstable sister, Jean, may be the culprit, Pickens does his best to protect his suicidal sibling from suspicion -- only to become the prime suspect himself. With an unsympathetic detective determined to pin the murder on him, Pickens struggles to clear his name while his career, his marriage, and his very will to live crumble around him…
This brilliantly twisted tour de force derives its power in large part from the author's meticulous attention to, and understated use of, imagery, symbolism, and allegory. Hart employs varying heights -- elevated porches, muck-filled sewers, the judge's bench, etc. -- as settings that work on many levels. A poignant chronicle of a southern lawyer's bittersweet journey of self-discovery, The King of Lies is intensely emotional, darkly poetic, and utterly readable. Grisham and Turow had best watch their backs! Paul Goat Allen
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