In this explosive legal thriller from New York Times -bestselling author Turow, two formidable men collide: a celebrated criminal defense lawyer at the end of his career and his lifelong friend, a renowned doctor accused of murder.
Full of the deep insights into the spaces where the fragility of human nature and the justice system collide, Scott Turow\'s The Last Trial is a masterful legal thriller that unfolds in page-turning suspense -- and questions how we measure a life..
Despite Pafko\'s many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend, and -- no matter the trial\'s outcome -- will he ever know the truth? Stern\'s duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart.
As the Trial progresses, he will question everything he thought he knew about his friend.
In a case that will be the defining coda to both men\'s accomplished lives, Stern probes beneath the surface of his friend\'s dazzling veneer as a distinguished cancer researcher.
Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life\'s work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one Last trial.
But when his old friend Dr.
At eighty-five years old, Alejandro Sandy Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement.
Two formidable men collide in this first-class legal thriller and New York Times bestseller about a celebrated criminal defense lawyer and the prosecution of his lifelong friend -- a doctor accused of murder (David Baldacci).
In this explosive legal thriller from New York Times -bestselling author Turow, two formidable men collide: a celebrated criminal defense lawyer at the end of his career and his lifelong friend, a renowned doctor accused of murder
