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S'està carregant… Wrongful Deathde Baine Kerr
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A man crushed between locomotives at a Wyoming switching yard...the mass murder of patients in a hospital in the former Yugoslavia...Attorney Elliot Stone was drawn into court for the trials ensuing both tragedies while trapped in a tragedy of his own, the death of his young wife, Kathleen. After two years prosecuting Balkan war crimes, he returns to Colorado to remake his life. When June, who reminds Stone of his wife, ends up in a Denver hospital comatose from a brutal beating, the court appoints him as her conservator. He gradually comes to terms with events in the presence of this helpless woman. Until June dies... With June's daughter, her lawyer, the forensic scientist, and members of the Exhumation Unit at the war-crimes tribunal, Stone starts piecing together a three-part Chinese puzzle -- how June was assaulted, why she died five months later, what was behind the string of suspicious deaths at her hospital. And the one question that echoes through it all: How can the good do evil? The startling answers are borne by ghosts from tragedies past -- and by the ghost of June herself -- as a spellbinding wrongful-death trial unfolds and the worlds of European war crimes and killings in a Colorado hospital converge in one twist after another. Of Baine Kerr's Harmful Intent, Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Kerr delivers what legal-intrigue fans crave: crackling sus-pense up top, compelling moral problems floating beneath the surface with an iceberg's menace." His eagerly anticipated new novel takes intrigue, menace, and moral complexity to a new dimension, an exploration of the nature of evil itself. In an intricate and supremely suspenseful tale of murder, revenge, justice, and, ultimately, love, Kerr renders courts, hospitals, and mass grave sites with utter authenticity. The electric courtroom action and powerful reverberations of provocative themes will haunt long after the triple mystery is solved. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Kant v Hume; Idealism v Nihilism; categorical imperative v antecedents and consequences. That was the subject of Elliott Stone’s --his name is teased out only gradually--thesis at Harvard. You’ll see the relevance by the end of the book.
Following the death of Kathleen, his wife from cancer (random), Stone immerses himself in international law and agrees to take on war crimes trials in the Balkans. His last case, before the Balkans, is as conservator for Dale Stillwell, a railroad worker (Stone had been a railroad defense attorney for two decades handling and growing rich from railroad crossing accidents (consequences)) who had been badly injured in a yard accident when he sandwiched between two engines during a snowstorm that prevented the engineer of his locomotive from seeing his hand-signals as they rounded a curve into a waiting train that should not have been there. He approves a settlement on behalf of Dale and June (ironically, she was the engineer of the locomotive and married him in a fit of guilt perhaps) for some $12 million.
Stone tells the story of his experiences in the Balkans to June, two years later, who is now in a coma in the hospital after being kicked in the head by Dale (Stone had overheard Dale saying he would kill her; Dale was ostensibly unhappy with the settlement, but had been ruled incompetent because of his injuries by the trial judge, hence Stone's conservator-ship.)
I’ll stop relating any more of the plot. Rest assured that seemingly disparate pieces of story fit together, and by the last third of the book, you’ll have difficulty putting the book down. The scenes where they are trying to track down a substance using a variety of sophisticated methods was very cool. And the method of murder was particularly devious and devastating. "The greatest evil is the evil that can pass for good." and even more unsettling, "Reason in isolation can be dangerous. Reason unrestrained by sympathy." So we are left with a person's own definition of good and why evil must be committed to preserve a self-concept of good. The killer is the epitome of evil in this book.
First rate legal novel that pits Hume and Kant against each other all over again. (