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Mar 10, 202362Patty33 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Good story but long and rather tedious. If the main character in the story was really entertaining, it would have made a big difference. I'm thinking of DeMille's book about an incident in Vietnam. His main character made the journey…
Mar 07, 2018Butterfly121761 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
100 pages in not holding my interest. Need to move on and find something else.
cluhowy
Nov 25, 2017cluhowy rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This story is a true to life, sober narrative that begins in the Hague with one witness’s testimony about a war crime that occurred 10 years prior to the investigation by the ICC (International Crimes Court). The beginning of the book…
Cbtuff
Oct 03, 2017Cbtuff rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Not one of his best. The characters were well developed but the story drug on too long. A for effort but C for a pleasure read.
Sep 22, 2017tjdickey rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Turow is pretty much the best writing in the genre of the legal thriller, and this time he adds even deeper human significance to his tale of history, war crimes, and cover-ups. As usual, his characters are deep, well-etched, and flawed;…
Sep 20, 2017
This story isn't really very compelling. The central plot, that hundreds of Roma people were buried in a mine without a trace and that years later there's drama about unearthing them, is simply not believable, given modern forensic…
Aug 28, 2017nionoff rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Turow has written some great courtroom thrillers including Presumed Innocent. In this, his latest novel, he is trying something different with limited success. This books deals with a fictional mass murder of Gypsies in Bosnia and the…
Aug 21, 2017jazpur rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Bill ten Boom is an American lawyer with a mid-life crisis in spades.Unlike the others in the Kindle County series, this is no courtroom drama. Testimony is a highly complex investigation centred on The International Criminal Court at…
Jul 05, 2017njon38 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A home run. Story about a us lawyer prosecuting a bosnian war crime.
Jun 03, 2017
Too much historical narrative, so detailed, it's hard to understand. Felt like I had to study and really just wanted to read a good story with dialogue. Didn't get far with this.
Apr 09, 2017
Latest from the guy who kicked off the legal thriller genre