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Ballantine Books
June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Featuring: George Becket
413 pages
ISBN: 0345541537
EAN: 9780345541536
Kindle: B00ALBR2KY
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Fiction Family Life
In the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson
DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about
power, corruption, and the law in America—and the dangerous
ways they come together.
A murder on Cape Cod. A rape in Palm Beach.
All they have in common is the presence of one of America’s
most beloved and influential families. But nobody is asking
questions. Not the police. Not the prosecutors. And
certainly not George Becket, a young lawyer toiling away in
the basement of the Cape & Islands district attorney’s
office. George has always lived at the edge of power. He
wasn’t born to privilege, but he understands how it works
and has benefitted from it in ways he doesn’t like to admit.
Now, an investigation brings him deep inside the world of
the truly wealthy—and shows him what a perilous place it is.
Years have passed since a young woman was found brutally
slain at an exclusive Cape Cod golf club, and no one has
ever been charged. Cornered by the victim’s father, George
can’t explain why certain leads were never explored—leads
that point in the direction of a single family—and he agrees
to look into it.
What begins as a search through the highly stratified layers
of Cape Cod society, soon has George racing from Idaho to
Hawaii, Costa Rica to France to New York City. But
everywhere he goes he discovers people like himself: people
with more secrets than answers, people haunted by a decision
years past to trade silence for protection from life’s sharp
edges. George finds his friends are not necessarily still
friends and a spouse can be unfaithful in more ways than
one. And despite threats at every turn, he is driven to
reconstruct the victim’s last hours while searching not only
for a killer but for his own redemption.
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