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Who can forget the way evidence and then testimony formed the links that slowly coiled a noose around the neck of Rusty Sabich in Presumed Innocent? And who could have imagined that the virtuoso Scott Turow would attempt—never mind succeed—in writing a sequel to Presumed Innocent that was even more compelling, not to mention frightening, than its predecessor? His success lies in his all-too-human—and believable—characters: Rusty Sabich, who has chosen the wrong way to atone for past sins; his wife, now dead; their son, now grown; the self-same Tommy Molto, as he vacillates between reluctance to roil his own life by going after his old enemy and his conviction that Rusty was and is guilty—of both crimes. No one writes better court scenes than Scott Turow and few can ratchet up tension the way he does. In Innocent he's outdone himself—yet again