| The Legal Limit Contributor(s): Clark, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307388662 ISBN-13: 9780307388667 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: Intricately plotted, intelligently conceived, and relentlessly entertaining, Martin Clark's new novel ties together family loyalty and the legal system in one slippery knot. The son of an abusive father and a loving mother, Mason Hunt managed to escape the small town of Stuart, Virginia, for college and law school. When he and his family move back he becomes the town's commonwealth attorney. But, Mason has a horrible, dark secret: Years before, he and his brother, Gates, witnessed a murder on a back country road. Now the events of one night may prove his undoing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime - Fiction | Thrillers - Legal |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009291706 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.32" W x 7.92" (0.68 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear. Intricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, The Legal Limit is an exploration of the judicial system's roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law. |