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High Crimes
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780380728800
ISBN: 038072880X
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: March 01, 1999
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: February 09, 1999
Studio: Harper
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Editorial Review:
When (not if---the deal has already been signed) this terrific thriller gets made into a movie, you might see Morgan Freeman as a crusty lawyer who specializes in taking on the military establishment tell the actress playing ace Boston barrister and Harvard Law professor Claire Heller Chapman, "Every civilian who's ever gone into a military general court-martial and tried to attack the foundations of the military has lost his case. No exceptions. The military is a tight, closed fraternity. They take it real serious. Military justice is a deadly serious business." Claire has to realize this as she prepares to defend her husband--the man she knows as Tom Chapman, but who the Army says is Ron Kubik-- on charges that he took part in a massacre of 87 civilians in San Salvador 13 years before. Full of doubts about Tom's innocence and her own ability to prove it in an unfamiliar arena, Claire is brought to exciting, moving life by the extravagantly gifted Joseph Finder, whose previous thrillers (Extraordinary Powers, The Zero Hour) are available in paperback.
Star attorney Claire Heller Chapman has known only love and respect from her successful husband. But now police are saying Tom Chapman is not who he says he is. Thirteen years ago, they claim, he had a different face and a different name -- and was responsible for a crime so heinous that only a maniac could have committed it. Now Claire must put her reputation, her family, and her life on the line to defend this man she never knew -- in a case where all the evidence is classified, all the rules are being changed around her...and the stakes are higher and deadlier than she or anyone else could have ever imagined.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - character interaction all wrong
Leftist antigovernment guerrillas killed four U.S. Marines in San Salvador. So Regan gives the order for "Total closure" meaning kill everyone remotely involved. They had intelligence of a leftist organization called FMLN based in a tiny village. They killed 87 people. The intel was wrong. No FMLN. Ron Kubik (aka Tom Chapman) was there. OK fine
What turned me off and caused me to return the book unfinished was
1. Chapter one. I just couldn't imagine the FBI staging an ... Read More
Rating:  - Highly Recommended
This is the third novel I have read by Joseph Finder. Like the other two, I was not disappointed.
High Crimes begins very innocently. Claire, a Harvard Law School professor and successful defense attorney, her husband Tom, an investment banker, and their daughter Annie, have dinner at a mall restaurant. Leaving the establishment, federal marshals appear to arrest her husband. Tom, showing much more athleticism and cunning than he appears to have, escapes.
From there, the ... Read More
Rating:  - Did not thrill me
Lured by many acclaim notes in the front and back covers, yet I could not find that spark that gets me trapped to this plot because in this story I have experienced Finder's trademark again, he uses to write serious drama in his books with the depth and times you will find in an afternoon soap opera. The story unfolds like a tale published in the pages of a glossy magazine. The final product is a light fast read suitable for a cross country flight if you don't like the plane magazines
Rating:  - Loads of Fun to Read
I read a lot of thrillers, and I think Joseph Finder is one of the best writers in the genre. He first came to fame in 2004, when he wrote an excellent novel called PARANOIA. But before he wrote that novel, he wrote a number of other books that were not as successful. HIGH CRIMES is one of them, and it's actually a pretty terrific effort.
HIGH CRIMES is a legal thriller involving a civilian attorney who must defend her husband in military court. I won't say much more about the plot, because ... Read More
Rating: - "Understand Claire - I'll just disappear again"
The writing is truly wonderful, and the construction of the plot nothing short of pure genius. It's the only way it could have worked, and worked so well. After reading Grisham, I used to believe that only lawyers usually write good legal thrillers, but Finder proved me wrong here.
High Crimes, is a story about a Harvard Faculty who finds herself in a tight situation where her husband is accused of killing eighty-seven innocent people. Her personal and professional life starts falling from every ... Read More
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