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Criminal defense lawyer Alejandro "Sandy" Stern copes with his wife's suicide, his three grown children and a government investigation of his brother-in-law's successful brokerage house. "Turow develops a complex, satisfying plot, steeped in law and finance, that turns perhaps too often on coincidence but remains utterly faithful to its deeply probed characters," said PW. $200,000 ad/promo.
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In this novel by the author of "Presumed Innocent", Sandy Stern, a brilliant defence lawyer, is devastated by his wife's suicide. He is forced to untangle a complex web of financial dealings and relationships.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Entertaining, but not a fast paced thriller, Avril 27 2004

Par	Michael Bird (Yorba Linda, CA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Burden Of Proof (Hardcover)

I put off reading this book for some time because it looked like too much work. I've enjoyed many Grisham novels and wanted to try out some other legal thrillers and see what they were like. Turow is a good writer, without question, but he lacks, at least in this book, some of the flash or pizzaz I was hoping for after reading others. This novel is definitely not a page turning thriller, but it is a solid story.

Some of the legal complications get hard to follow unless you have at least a minimal grasp of how financial markets work, but basic evil is usually pretty easy to spot so don't let the setting throw you off. Turow obviously works at his craft with some measure of pride, so I don't count the few words and/or concepts that are over my head get the better of me, the context makes the actions plain enough.

So the real question is do I give this book a recommendation? Well, yes. It's an entertaining mystery/legal setting type book and while it doesn't read with the same speed and ease of some others, it's still worth checking out.

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2.0�toiles sur 5 Keep your dictionary close at hand, Sep 30 2003

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This review is from: The Burden of Proof (Mass Market Paperback)

The plot is interesting and one that could have made for excellent reading. However, the writer made one fundamental mistake which every lawyer tends to make from time to time. He had to show off his knowledge of "big words".

Unless the writer intended for this book to be read by scholars only, my advice to the average Joe is to ensure that he has a dictionary opened when he begins to read because the plot is buried in grandiloquence.

I am myself an attorney and an English major and I found this book tough reading because I was basically stumbling over unnecessarily big words which made it difficult to appreciate the plot fully.

A great writer is able to get his ideas across in uncomplicated language. It is after all a work of fiction, not a dissertation.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 Rude awakenings......, D�c 21 2002

Par	Gerburg Frick "narrator of Red Cage, true acc... (Lake Orion, MI United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Burden of Proof (Paperback)

This fiction lacks page to page suspense. The reader is taken into a Jewish family, where the main character, Stern, does not know anybody except his colorful, scheming, affluent brother in law. His son, daughters, son in law and especially his wife of decades are strangers to him. So are his close neighbors. Yet Stern is a successful lawyer, must have a reasonable amount of intelligence, one should hope. An unlikely situation, but entertaining enough. It seems like he really doesn't want to know what makes his family tick but stumbles into their secrets. Rude awakenings! That would be a better title, because the legal aspects of the book read like murky morass. I think the author failed his burden of proof to convince me, that this is a good novel. His style is tiresome to read, however the proof is there, that fiction has no limits, because it demands no burden of proof. Rude awakenings for fans of this author, I assume! Gerborg

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Average Follow Up
I thought the author slipped a bit with this book, not as good as some of his others. He constructed a good book with a step-by-step progress to the end and he can weave in a sub... Read more

Publi� le Avril 9 2002 par John G. Hilliard

3.0�toiles sur 5 Not as good as presumed innocent
In "Burden of Proof", lawyer and novelist Scott Turow returns the character of Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the smooth-spoken, Argentine-Jewish defense attorney introduced in the... Read more

Publi� le D�c 5 2001 par Rottenberg's rotten book review

5.0�toiles sur 5 A well woven tale
This is the second Turow novel I've read and I'm hooked. He's an excellent story teller and really knows how to take a plot through unexpected twists and turns. Read more

Publi� le Nov. 16 2001 par brazos49