Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance.
At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp's Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night--and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived.
Boom's task is to examine Ferko's claims and determinine who might have massacred the Roma. His investigation takes him from the International Criminal Court's base in Holland to the cities and villages of Bosnia and secret meetings in Washington, DC, as Boom sorts through a host of suspects, ranging from Serb paramilitaries, to organized crime gangs, to the US government itself, while also maneuvering among the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US major general desperate to salvage his reputation; Sergeant Major Atilla Doby, a vital cog in American military operations near the camp at the time of the Roma's disappearance; Laza Kajevic, the brutal former leader of the Bosnian Serbs; Esma Czarni, Ferko's alluring barrister; and of course, Ferko himself, on whose testimony the entire case rests-and who may know more than he's telling.
A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet.
Show moreScott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance.
At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp's Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night--and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived.
Boom's task is to examine Ferko's claims and determinine who might have massacred the Roma. His investigation takes him from the International Criminal Court's base in Holland to the cities and villages of Bosnia and secret meetings in Washington, DC, as Boom sorts through a host of suspects, ranging from Serb paramilitaries, to organized crime gangs, to the US government itself, while also maneuvering among the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US major general desperate to salvage his reputation; Sergeant Major Atilla Doby, a vital cog in American military operations near the camp at the time of the Roma's disappearance; Laza Kajevic, the brutal former leader of the Bosnian Serbs; Esma Czarni, Ferko's alluring barrister; and of course, Ferko himself, on whose testimony the entire case rests-and who may know more than he's telling.
A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet.
Show moreScott Turow is the author of eleven bestselling works of fiction, including Identical, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, and two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic.
"[A] smart, demanding thriller."--Washington Post, "17 Thrillers
and Mysteries Worth Toting to the Beach"
"A compelling story, told with Turow's usual ease, authority and
understated humor."--Chicago Tribune
"A complex and haunting tale of war crimes that will not only
satisfy his courtroom drama devotees but also readers of
international thrillers."--Library Journal
"A thriller yarn with many twists and turns."--Chicago
Sun-Times
"Bestseller Turow (Identical) movingly evokes the horrors of the
Balkan wars in this gripping thriller."--Publishers Weekly
"Fast-paced...Scott Turow is first and foremost a storyteller, and
that's what propels the action, that and trying to figure out the
truth...another fine book by this very fine writer."--Washington
Times
"Follows twists and turns, shifting alliances, and a near-fatal
confrontation... [TESTIMONY] is exciting and consistent with
Turow's prior novels."--The Missourian
"Not your average legal thriller. Brilliant? Yes. Compelling? Yes.
Complex? Yes. Fraught with misperceptions, twists and turns? Yes.
Most of the time spent in a courtroom? Not even close...the setting
and circumstances made me feel as if I have seen a glimpse of what
it was like in Bosnia during the war."--Fredericksburg News
"Raises important questions of responsibility, patriotism,
corruption and the role of military power. And even as it confronts
these weighty issues, it keeps the reader engaged in a page-turning
thriller...Turow is back on his game in TESTIMONY."--Illinois
Times
"Scott Turow has done the impossible: Making the International
Criminal Court in The Hague interesting. ..in TESTIMONY it is a
hotbed of intrigue and infighting involving a massacre of Roma
people in former Yugoslavia and the travails of an American
prosecutor."--Bloomberg.com, "Our Favorite Summer Reads"
"Scott Turow writes with zest and authority about the inner
workings of the law...TESTIMONY unfolds in highly descriptive prose
and is sprinkled with colorful characters."--Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
"Scott Turow's new novel is the dedicated fiction-reader's version
of El Dorado: a driving, unputdownable courtroom drama/murder
mystery that is also a literary treasure, written in language that
sparkles with clarity and resonates with honest character insight.
I came away feeling amazed and fulfilled, as we only do when we
read novelists at the height of their powers. Put this one on your
don't-miss list." (Praise for Innocent)--Stephen King
"The master of the courtroom drama, Scott Turow's latest legal
thriller goes international and is a page turner not to be
missed!"--Daniel Silva, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Black Widow
"The real pleasure of the new novel lies not so much in solving the
mystery of the massacre as in watching Turow knock down assumption
after assumption made by Boom--and the reader. In fact, I can't
think of another novel in which so many givens end up being exposed
as either honest mistakes or outright lies. TESTIMONY is a tour de
force of collapsing perceptions."--Washington Post
"This is at once a thriller, a story of middle-aged angst, an
exposition of international law and an exploration of an intensely
serious and very nasty episode in recent history...admirable and
important."--New York Times Book Review
"Turow applies the same storytelling magic to the ICC that has
drawn scores of readers into his Kindle County courtrooms, weaving
fascinating details about the challenges of prosecuting war crimes
into a suspenseful story of redemption and the complexities of
justice."--Booklist
"Turow's lively prose and terrific cast of supporting characters
make TESTIMONYone for the beach bag...This is a guy who knows what
he's doing: Turow has been crafting intricate, best-selling legal
thrillers dating back to his blockbuster wifedunit, Presumed
Innocent (30 years ago!)."--USA Today
"TESTIMONY is an absolutely crackerjack read, and again leaves us
wishing that Turow would haul out his typewriter a tad more
often."--Winnipeg Free Press
"TESTIMONY is Scott Turow's most ambitious and complex work-which
takes us from the gritty familiarity of his beloved Kindle County
into a mysterious world of international intrigue. It's the best
kind of thriller, which stimulates the mind as well as thrilling
the heart."--Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times bestselling author of
American Heiress
"TESTIMONY shows the great human toll when an entire section of the
world descends into chaos...this novel is a legal thriller on a
grand stage...Turow's descriptions of the causes and aftermath of
the Bosnian war are both substantive and compassionate...sheds an
unwavering light on the devastating human toll and the
still-reverberating political aftershocks."--The ARTery, WBUR
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