New York Times bestseller John Lescroart returns
with an ambitious, torn-from- today's-headlines thriller
featuring his trademark blend of real people and real
suspense.
John Lescroart's millions of fans have been waiting three
years for the return of San Francisco defense attorney
Dismas Hardy and his buddy, detective Abe Glitsky--and in
that time John Lescroart's popularity has continued to
soar. Now, Hardy and Glitsky reunite in a story filled with
the big themes that are worthy of them--the intersection of
love, betrayal, and a desperate search for the truth in a
critical matter of national security.
When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of
recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it
will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time--
the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan
Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named
Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring
the men into fatal conflict: Nolan?s relationship with
Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher back
home in the states, followed by a deadly incident in which
Nolan's apparent mistake results in the death of an
innocent Iraqi family as well as seven men in Evan's
platoon. As the murky relationship between the US
government and its private contractors plays out in the
personal drama of these two men, and the consequences
become a desperate matter of life and death, Dismas Hardy
begins to uncover a terrible and perilous truth that takes
him far beyond the case and into the realm of assassination
and treason.
From the treacherous streets of Iraq to the courtrooms of
California, Betrayal is not only John Lescroart's most
ambitious and provocative novel, it is a magnificent tour
de force of pure storytelling.
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