The Adversary Tapa blanda - 1976

London: Mayflower. Very Good; Light foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading . block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork . uncredited.. 1976. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 480 pages; A brutal murder, an arrest, interogation, confession, trial, conviction, and a sentence of death in the electric chair. But prompted by a new ambitious lawyer, the convicted man appeals. Guthrie needs this case, not just to win it, but to engineer a long drawn out suspenseful drama and then win in a blaze of publicity to become one of the star defenders whose names flourish in the headlines across the nation. And watching, waiting his time, is the judge, a former close friend of Guthrie's, who knows that in this odyssey through the courts the most likely losers will be truth and justice. ; 0583125433 .