Mystery/Thriller -- 2 stars
Dr. Kirl Pafko, a Nobel Prize winner in medicine, has been charged with insider trading and murder after his miracle cancer drug seems to be killing people. He asks his friend Sandy Stern to defend him. Someone is lying--Dr. Pafko, his ex-girlfriend, his current girlfriend, his son, or maybe it's his wife. Mr. Stern is going to have to do some serious investigating to find the truth. ----- I haven't read a Scott Turow book for a while, but there are half a dozen sitting on my bookshelves, so I must have enjoyed them. This one fails. A good editor could have saved this, but instead it went to print an over-written, bloated, wordy mess. At times it seemed that Mr. Turow was trying to impress me with all the facts (and I do mean ALL) that he knows about insider trading and the steps needed in getting a new drug to market. After slogging through page after page after page of long-winded passages, it's almost an insult that he felt it necessary to regurgitate the entire trial as a lo-o-o-ng closing statement. There is a clever story hidden in there that leaves you guessing who did what, when, and to whom. It's unfair to Sandy Stern and his daughter who are well drawn and interesting characters, but in the end, I didn't care.
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