Pleading Guilty

The classic legal thriller from the master of the genre 'Turow's prose is powerful . . . a tough, vivid, urban poetry, singing of ambition and corruption . . . an arresting performance' New York Times Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague - his firm's star litigator - who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money. Soon Mack will descend into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city on his final, desperate and courageous crusade to reinvent himself from the depths of his own shattered soul . . . 'Turow lights us through the murky, labyrinthine ways of legal and financial chicanery, drawing us into a treacle-thick plot that mixes embezzlement, conspiracy and high-risk opportunism' Independent 'Scott Turow is master of the legal thriller' – The GuardianSet in a world of corporate conspiracy, money and murder, Pleading Guilty is Scott Turow's third Kindle County legal thriller. His first Kindle County thriller, Presumed Innocent, is now a major TV series from Apple TV+ starring Jake Gyllenhaal.Meet Mack Malloy. Ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A long-time ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague: his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money.It’s a trail that will take him into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city, as Mack desperately fights to reinvent himself from the depths of his own shattered soul . . .Praise for Scott Turow:'Head-and-shoulders above others in the legal thriller genre he created' – The Observer'A brilliant chronicler of contemporary America' – The Sunday Times'Turow does legal thrillers better than anyone else' – Irish Independent'Worthy to be ranked with Dashiell Hammet or Raymond Chandler' – The New York Times'No one writes better mystery suspense novels than Scott Turow' – Los Angeles Times