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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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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 Americaβand 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 Americaβs 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 attorneyβs office. George has always lived at the edge of power. He wasnβt born to privilege, but he understands how it works and has benefitted from it in ways he doesnβt like to admit. Now, an investigation brings him deep inside the world of the truly wealthyβand 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 victimβs father, George canβt explain why certain leads were never exploredβleads that point in the direction of a single familyβand 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 lifeβs 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 victimβs last hours while searching not only for a killer but for his own redemption.
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