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In each successive novel since Degree of Guilt, Richard North Patterson has experimented with flashbacks and past tragedies to drive the present suspense of his legal thrillers. Silent Witness is, perhaps, his greatest achievement with the technique as his hero, Tony Lord, is haunted by the 27-year-old murder of his high school girlfriend, Alison Taylor.

In the late 1960s, Tony is the star of the Lake City, Ohio, high school football team. But when Alison is found strangled behind her house, even Tony's closest friend, Sam Robb, suspects him. Alison's true killer is never found, and Tony flees his home town to forge a career as a high-powered, high-profile San Francisco criminal attorney and marries a a movie star. Cutting to the present day, Tony is called back to Lake City to defend his old friend. Sixteen-year-old track star Marcie Calder was found dead on the shore of Lake Erie, and Sam, now the overweight assistant principal and track coach of Lake City High, is the accused. A series of scandals slowly erodes Tony's confidence in Sam's innocence as Tony comes to terms with his own troubled past.

As with Patterson's previous work, Silent Witness is a novel with subtle characters who happen to be involved in a compelling (and authentic-seeming) criminal trial. For dedicated Patterson fans, some insight into the life of actress Stacey Tarrant is a special treat. She's Tony's wife in the present world of the novel but was the lover of Senator James Kilcannon before the senator was assassinated. James was the brother of Kerry Kilcannon, the enigmatic presidential candidate at the center of Patterson's 1998 blockbuster, No Safe Place. --Patrick O'Kelley --Ce texte provient de la Mass Market Paperback édition.

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Like its predecessors, Patterson's latest novel (after The Final Judgment) evinces endless admiration for the ornateness of the law, and is crowded with complex characters whose troubles will draw readers deeply into their story. This hypnotic tale revolves around a friendship that begins on a high-school football field and is tested half a lifetime later in a Lake City, Ohio, courtroom. Tony Lord, a noted California criminal lawyer, returns to the home of his youth to defend his oldest friend, Sam Robb, against the charge of murdering his 16-year-old mistress. Lord takes the sordid case in part because his own life was nearly shattered when, as a teenager, he was suspected of murdering his own girlfriend. Because he wasn't formally charged, he was never "acquitted" by his neighbors of the brutal killing, which remains unsolved 28 years later. Lord isn't ready for the feelings that assault him in Lake City, or for the resurrection of memories both cherished and hated-like those of his brief affair with the cheerleader who became Sam Robb's wife, or of Sam's past questioning of Lord's innocence. Moving back and forth in time with metronomic patience, Patterson grants these two homicide cases an almost epic grandeur. He examines, in sometimes painful detail, the ways in which the friendships of youth can pass into personal mythology and skew adult judgment. But he is at his dramatic finest when, at last, he gives the emotions of these characters, who are connected by a lifetime of love and resentment, full reign in the courtroom. These are the scenes that his fans will anticipate most eagerly, and they are as explosive and revealing as anyone could wish. 400,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection; simultaneous Random House Audio.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 many legal thrillers make promises . . . this one delivers, Juil 10 2004
Par "toddc55" (Garden Grove, CA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Ce commentaire est de: Silent Witness (Hardcover)
I just finished this book for the second time; it says something that you can still be riveted by a book you've already read & know the ending. Among RNP's best, and that's saying something, as he is among the very best at this type of book: legal thriller combined with gripping personal stories. The picture he paints of the friendship/rivalry of the two teenage protagonists & their girlfriends rings true, as does the angst he describes as his characters transition from high school to middle age. Secondary characters (often the difference between great writers & merely good ones) are also very strong, particularly John Taylor (father of a girl who is killed), Ernie Nixon (token black in town) and the aging lawyer Sol, past his prime but still hanging in.

One caution: the second half of the book deals openly with details (forensic & otherwise) of a middle-aged school administrator's sordid affair with a high school girl, who eventually ends up dead. On several levels, this aspect of the book can be disturbing & not for the squeamish.

All in all, RNP is one of the best, and this book is one of his best.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Gripping to the last page, Jui 12 2004
Par Gordon M. Crawford (Richland, Washington United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Ce commentaire est de: Silent Witness (Mass Market Paperback)
I really enjoyed this book. It was well written, had very well crafted characters and although you were never quite sure if Sam Robb had murdered Marcie Calder, it was the shocking revelation in the last few chapters which really took the biscuit. The book has a beautiful symmetry about it and charts the conflicts within the main character - Lawyer Tony Lord returned to his backwater home town, which he left as a teenager, the never indicted prime suspect of a horrendous murder, to defend his boyhood friend, Sam Robb charged with a similarly brutal murder. In his single-minded attempts to prove the circumstantial nature of the charges against his client, he comes close to destroying Ernie Nixon a black boyhood friend by blatantly exploiting the race card and Nixon's occassional lapses of judgement. Lord enlists the help of the Lawyer who so ably defended him 28 years previously, adding another interesting dimension to the story. Sue Robb rounds out the list of main characters - a rock in Sam's life, who nonetheless is conflicted by Sam's drunken lapses and now proven infidelities.
As I infer in my headline - once you get past the early chapters, you will struggle to put this book down. I intend to read more of Patterson's work.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 An Intense, Powerful Story, Oct. 10 2003
Par Vesta Irene (the Pacific Northwest) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Ce commentaire est de: Silent Witness (Mass Market Paperback)
In 1967 Tony Lord and his best friend Sam Robb enjoy double dating with their girlfriends, Sue and Alison. Alison is murdered on the night she and Tony have sex for the first time and Tony is the chief suspect. Although there is not enough proof to charge him, the town turns against him, so he leaves, vowing never to come back.

Twenty-seven years later he's a successful defense attorney in San Francisco. He's put the past behind him, though he's never forgotten Alison or how he was falsely accused.

Then Susan, now married to Sam, calls and asks him to come back and defend her husband against a charge of murdering a teenage girl. The case is strikingly similar to what happened to Alison so long ago and Tony begins to think it's not just coincidence.

Friendship, death, the death of a friendship, grief and justice are just a few of the issues dealt with in this thriller that spans half a lifetime.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

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5.0étoiles sur 5 An Intense, Powerful Story
In 1967 Tony Lord and his best friend, Sam Robb enjoyed double dating with their girlfriends Sue and Alison. Lisez davantage
Publié le Oct. 9 2003 par Vesta Irene

5.0étoiles sur 5 Well Done Courtroom Drama Draped with Rising Suspense
As an attorney, I found Richard North Patterson's depiction of the verbal exchanges that comprise a criminal trial to be realistic and entertaining. Mr. Lisez davantage
Publié le Oct. 3 2003 par Frank Luther

5.0étoiles sur 5 "SILENT WITNESS" A REAL WINNER!
Richard North Patterson continues his string of outstanding novels with this penetrating look at friendship, faith and love. Lisez davantage
Publié le Mars 7 2003 par Michael Butts

5.0étoiles sur 5 Sometimes a page-turner, sometimes not
After having read only one of R.N.P's books beforehand (Final Judgement), I found this book both exciting, gripping, but also too long at times. Lisez davantage
Publié le Fév 13 2003 par catrinej

4.0étoiles sur 5 one of his best
apart from RNP's seeming obsession with sweet valley high style high-school antics and sexual intimacies involving teenage girls which have occurred in all the books i've read of... Lisez davantage
Publié le Oct. 2 2002 par Tiger

5.0étoiles sur 5 My First RNP Book
I first listened to this book (unabridged) while driving back from school for xmas vacation. I sat in my car till I finished listening to it. Lisez davantage
Publié le Oct. 1 2002 par viccifleming

5.0étoiles sur 5 They don't get any better
Tony Lord is a successful criminal defense attorney in San Francisco, married to an Oscar-winning actress and living the life of the rich and famous. Lisez davantage
Publié le Jui 16 2002 par Stan Vernooy

3.0étoiles sur 5 Good start, bad end
The first three parts of this book it can be considered a thriller, these parts inviting you to keep reading the book, this three parts can have 5 stars. Lisez davantage
Publié le Mai 17 2002 par Jorge Frid

5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent, gripping tale!
This was the second RNP book that I have read and to date, it is still my favorite. Although the subject matter at times is a bit disturbing, the story was gripping and... Lisez davantage
Publié le Janv. 4 2002 par Heather L. Williams

5.0étoiles sur 5 STILL A THRILLER SECOND TIME AROUND
I READ THIS BOOK WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT AND FORGOT ABOUT IT OVER THE YEARS. IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO REMEMBER THE STORY OF TONY LORD AND ALISON TAYLOR IN THEIR LOVE AFFAIR AT AGE... Lisez davantage
Publié le Déc 17 2001 par G. Bowser

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