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A brilliant lawyer, a dangerous affair, a brutal murder, and a client who might just be…
THE LAST INNOCENT MAN
David Nash, and ice-cool defence lawyer, is practically unbeaten in the courtroom. Most of his clients are guilty. Some are monsters. Suddenly Nash is assailed by doubts: what is the effect on society of each victory, each rapist and murderer set free – and what is the cost to his soul?
Then he takes on a client accused of the brutal murder of an undercover cop, but whose innocence he can believe in. Then as the case moves towards trial he is gripped by more doubts: what is truth and what is carefully fabricated falsehood? Is Nash, the mast at handling juries, being manipulated himself? By whom? As his perfect case moves to a conclusion the answers to those questions become a matter of life and death.
‘Jam-packed plot … exposes the costs paid by a conscientious lawyer in the coin of human feeling’ Washington Post
Paperback, 354 pages. In very good preloved condition.