THE JUDGMENT

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1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. page edges lightly soiled else near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book. The premise: A distinguished, highly respected judge must preside over the trial of the man accused of a crime passionnel that the judge himself has committed. The author: Howard E. Goldfluss, himself a sitting judge. The alchemy: A remarkable novel in which the many guises of ambition, betrayal, guilt and expiation are revealed in a relentless and ultimately satisfying fashion. Others play out their roles on the courtroom stage: the defendant, whose guilt seems so beyond question that his own mother testifies against him; his defense counsel, an idealistic young man who will discover that his blacks and whites have become a land of terrifying grays, the prosecuting attorney, who begins to question the side he is on; the judge's wife, a lady whose breeding is impeccable, whose willingness to employ her arsenal of sexual and intellectual weapons in the service of her ambition is wondrously unlimited. N° de ref. del artículo 004352

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