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1 online resource (485 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; Prologue: 5 March 2015; I.: The Hague; 1.: Reset-8 January 2015; 2.: The Hague-2 March 2015; 3.: Going to Work-March 3-4; II.: Moving; 4.: The Order; 5.: Settling In-March 11-April 8; 6.: Merriwell-April 10; 7.: Dining; III.: Bosnia; 8.: Attila-April 11-15; 9.: The Blue Lamp; 10.: Barupra-April 16; 11.: Lijce; 12.: Still a Gypsy; 13.: Regret; IV.: For the Record; 14.: Records-April 16-23; 15.: Leiden-April 24-26; 16.: The Lab-April 29; 17.: A Meeting-April 27-May 10; 18.: Deal-May 15-28; V.: Trouble; 19.: Home Run-May 30-June 1 |
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20.: Buried Again-June 221.: Back to the Salt Mine; 22.: Why-June 3-4; VI.: Kajevic; 23.: Who's There?-June 4-9; 24.: Now in Person-June 10; 25.: Home to The Hague-June 10-13; 26.: New Witness-June 15-16; 27.: Emira-June 17-19; 28.: Kajevic-June 23; VII.: In the Cave; 29.: War and Truth-June 26-27; 30.: The Cave-June 29-July 2; 31.: Fallacies-July 3-6; 32.: Home?-July 6-7; VIII.: Breaking the Law; 33.: Foley Square-July 9; 34.: OTR-July 9-10; 35.: Foreign Voices-July 10-11; 36.: Bad Person-July 11; Discover More Scott Turow; Author's Note; Also by Scott Turow; About the Author |
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At the age of fifty, 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 determine 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 United States 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. |
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Assigned to investigate the unsolved disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp during the Bosnian War, Bill ten Boom, a disillusioned American prosecutor, navigates a host of suspects while uncovering disturbing alliances and betrayals. |
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"In the bestselling tradition of Presumed Innocent--the 1987 debut novel that made him "one of the major writers in America" (NPR)--comes what may be Scott Turow's best thriller yet... Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp--unsolved for ten years--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian War, Boom must navigate a host of suspects ranging from Serb paramilitaries to organized crime gangs to the U.S. government, while also maneuvering among the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Morgan Merriwell, a disgraced U.S. Major General; Ferko Rincic, the massacre's sole survivor; and Esma Czarni, an alluring barrister with secrets to protect. A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet"-- Provided by publisher. |
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International Criminal Court -- Fiction.
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International Criminal Court. |
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Yugoslav War (1991-1995) |
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1991-1995 |
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War crimes -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Fiction.
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Genocide -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities -- Fiction.
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Romanies -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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Genocide -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Fiction.
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Atrocities. |
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Genocide. |
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Missing persons -- Investigation. |
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Romanies -- Crimes against. |
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War crimes. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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Suspense fiction.
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Mystery Fiction.
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Legal stories.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Fiction.
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Legal fiction (Literature)
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Legal fiction (Literature)
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Turow, Scott. Testimony New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017 9781455553549 (DLC) 2016057513 (OCoLC)958780527 |
| ISBN |
9781478971047 : $84.00 |
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1478971045 : $84.00 |
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