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California, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense, Political / legal thriller
Lawyer Dismas Hardy returns in The Second Chair by master storyteller John Lescroart, in what has been described by Lee Child as 'Today's best legal series'.
To the outside world, it looks like Dismas Hardy is finally on top. A managing partner at his thriving law firm but beneath the surface bravado, Hardy has lost his faith in the law. Now he has a high-profile and challenging case: a seventeen-year-old arrested for the double slaying of his girlfriend and his English teacher.
As the case moves swiftly to trial, Hardy can't even turn to his old friend Abe Glitsky for help. San Francisco has been seized by a wave of violence and an embattled Glitsky must somehow stop the criminal upsurge while being hounded by a hostile media.
With the city on the verge of panic, Hardy's search for the truth takes him down a perilous path. With very little belief in his young client's innocence, and even less in the legal system, Hardy has to conquer his own demons if he is to clear his client . . . and save himself.
Praise for The Second Chair (Dismas Hardy series, book 10): A courtroom thriller
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The best of the best - Lee Child
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High-class...first-rate - Sunday Telegraph
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Breathtaking - LA Times
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Brilliant - Washington Post
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Compulsively readable - San Francisco Chronicle
John Lescroart
John Lescroart is the author of twenty-nine novels, nineteen of which have been New York Times bestsellers. Libraries Unlimited has named John among 'The 100 Most Popular Thriller and Suspense Authors'. With sales of over twelve million copies, his books have been translated into twenty-two languages in more than seventy-five countries, and his short stories appear in many anthologies. He lives in California.
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