The Laws of Our Fathers Author: Scott Turow
	Book Information Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 21 ISBN-13: 9780374184230 - ISBN-10: 0374184232 Publication Date: 10/18/1996 Pages: 534

The Laws of Our Fathers, Scott Turow's most powerful novel to date, opens with a spectacular drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most notorious drug-plagued housing projects. The victim is an aging white woman who has never been seen there before; within days her son, Nile Eddgar, a probation officer, is charged in connection with the crime - and the reader falls gratefully once more under the hypnotic spell that only Scott Turow can cast. Nile's trial is presided over - and narrated by - Judge Sonia "Sonny" Klonsky, whom Turow's fans will remember from his second novel, "The Burden of Proof". It brings together a vivid cast of characters from Sonny's student years during the turbulent sixties, among them Nile's father, Loyell Eddgar, once a leading campus revolutionary, and Sonny's old boyfriend Seth Weissman, who is now a renowned journatlist. All have been permanently marked by the heady iconoclasm of their youth; some carry terrible secrets that come to bear on the case at hand in unforseeable and explosive ways.