The Client

ISBN: 9780385424714

出版社: Doubleday

出版年: 1993-02-01

页数: 432

定价: USD 29.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two??boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the??curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother??were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance??encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing??a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of??the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught??between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer??desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is??a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer??for all of four years. Prosecutors are??willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The??mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And??Reggie will do anything to protect her client --??even take a last, desperate gamble that could win??Mark his freedom... or cost them both their??lives.