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Silent Witness

By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
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A main selection of the Literary Guild

Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, 28 years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide.

Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see 16-year-old Marcie Calder alive, and as shocking forensic evidence at the trial reveals, he is the father of her unborn child.

Probing the darkest recesses of love and friendship, Lord will discover things too disturbing to ignore - that Sam wasn't the only one in Lake City with a motive for killing Marcie, that small-town secrets can hide devastating betrayals, and that the past has a way of repeating itself...even in murder.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the abridged edition. An unabridged version is also available.

©1997 Richard North Patterson (P)1996 Random House Audio Publishing, Inc., All Rights Reserved Under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions, Reproduced by Arrangement with Random House Audio Publishing, Inc.
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Critic reviews

"This generation's best writer of legal thrillers.... His strongest fiction to date." (Entertainment Weekly)

"Enthralling.... The denouement is powerful." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

"Intense courtroom drama.... As startling as the bang of a gavel." (People)

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Unbearably tense

Richard North Patterson here wrings every drop of tension out of a tremendous story, culminating in an ending which could not come soon enough. Beautifully read, this is a fantastic audiobook, but the sound quality is very poor, even at the highest byte level. Don't expect to find the characters particularly likeable, but get into the story and you're away!

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