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.
ISBN: | 9780307388667 |
Publication date: | 2nd June 2009 |
Author: | Martin Clark |
Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 402 pages |
Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
Genres: |
General Fiction Political / Legal Thrillers Crime and Mystery Thriller and Suspense |