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The King of Lies
John Hart
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Description for The King of Lies
Paperback. 'Presumed Innocent meets Fatal Attraction.. Hart's prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard..' - Entertainment Weekly Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278.
Jackson Workman Pickens - 'Work' to his friends - an unambitious lawyer in a small Southern town, has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago from a 'fall' down the family's colonial staircase and his father, Ezra, has been missing ever since. Work is left to deal with his psychologically damaged sister, his father's legal caseload and his own rocky marriage. Power and greed bring many enemies, especially for a man as cruel as Ezra Pickens, so when his body turns up pretty much everyone in town is a suspect - but only one man is charged ... Read more
Jackson Workman Pickens - 'Work' to his friends - an unambitious lawyer in a small Southern town, has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago from a 'fall' down the family's colonial staircase and his father, Ezra, has been missing ever since. Work is left to deal with his psychologically damaged sister, his father's legal caseload and his own rocky marriage. Power and greed bring many enemies, especially for a man as cruel as Ezra Pickens, so when his body turns up pretty much everyone in town is a suspect - but only one man is charged ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848540989
SKU
V9781848540989
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About John Hart
John Hart was born in North Carolina in 1965, and lives with his wife and two young children in Rowan County, where The King of Lies is set. He has degrees in French, accounting and law, and worked as a banker, stockbroker and attorney before beginning his writing career. The King of Lies is his first book.
Reviews for The King of Lies
'Smart and swift-moving... Hart knows his way around the courtrooms and jailhouses...the way that Grisham and Turow do'
Pat Conroy
'Akin to the close-range gut-roiling atmosphere summoned by the legal thrillers of Scott Turow'
New York Times
'Presumed Innocent meets Fatal Attraction. Hart's prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard...'
Entertainment Weekly
... Read more
Pat Conroy
'Akin to the close-range gut-roiling atmosphere summoned by the legal thrillers of Scott Turow'
New York Times
'Presumed Innocent meets Fatal Attraction. Hart's prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard...'
Entertainment Weekly
... Read more