Greetings from Amazon.com Delivers Mystery and Thrillers With his 1987 debut novel, "Presumed Innocent," former assistant U.S. attorney Scott Turow burst onto the mystery and thrillers scene and sparked an explosion of legal thrillers that reverberated through the 1990s. In "Personal Injuries," Turow shows that he is still the master, crafting a complex tale of an FBI sting operation partly based on Chicago's famous Greylord case that Turow tried in the early 80s. At the center of "Personal Injuries" is the fascinating character of Robbie Feaver, a corrupt attorney. Amazon.com's Patrick O'Kelley asked Turow about Feaver, a man whose "life is so full of deceit, but you gradually realize he is a compassionate liar. As a reader, you don't know whether to like him, or hate him." Here is Turow's response. You can find "Personal Injuries" at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374281947/entertainmentsit and other titles by Scott Turow at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/?keyword=scott+turow&tag=entertainmentsit ****** Excerpts from Amazon.com's interview with Scott Turow My experience as an author is there's always a character I don't know very well who ends up running away with the book. That began with Sandy Stern in "Presumed Innocent." Fortunately for me in this book that character is Robbie Feaver. As I envisioned him, he was somewhat taciturn and self-contained, but I started writing and there emerged this blabber-mouth! I'd write and I'd say, no, this just won't work. This guy can't be that far out there. And I'd try it again, and there he was again. Finally I just gave in to him. The great game here, for an author, is to make you come to like this guy, notwithstanding. To be seduced by him much as much of the world has been. And you know, again, that's my judgment and apparently that of the early reviewers, that that worked. You get to the irresistible moment of seeing this guy with his profound flaws, and, as you said, the one true thing about him is that you know that he's unlikely to tell you the truth. Yet there are certain abiding things about him, including his passion for other human beings. It ends up redeeming a large part of him by the end of the book. In Feaver I saw some of the best and the worst of sort of white-collar defendants that I've experienced over the last 20-some years. There were guys I prosecuted who were detestable, but I found them irresistible as human beings! Greylord was not the only long-term investigation I was involved in. There were others, and there were a couple of main snitches who utterly fascinated me. Part was their ability to fail and fail and fail again in life, and to constantly undermine themselves. And others, with crooks and con men who nonetheless could tell you the most lacerating truths about yourself, and about themselves. It was just startling. And it's always stayed with me. That's a lot of where Feaver comes from. The full text of Amazon.com's interview with Scott Turow can be found at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/?keyword=scott+turow&tag=entertainmentsit Featured in this e-mail: "Personal Injuries" by Scott Turow http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374281947/entertainmentsit "Presumed Innocent" by Scott Turow http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446359866/entertainmentsit ****** You'll find more great books, articles, excerpts, and interviews in Amazon.com's Mystery & Thrillers section at Mystery & Thrillers
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