The Legal Limit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307388667)

Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear.

Intricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, The Legal Limit is an exploration of the judicial system's roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law.

Author: Martin Clark
ISBN-10: 0307388662
ISBN-13: 9780307388667
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.32w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/02/2009 pg. 20