COURT OF LIES
Book ID/图书代码： 10720018C00010
English Summary/英文概要： Gerry Spence is one of the greatest trial lawyers of our time. He has not lost a jury trial in fifty years and has never lost a criminal or a capital case. He has also represented many celebrated defendants and appeared on countless national TV talk shows.
Spence now presents us with beautiful Lillian Adams, who is going on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband before Judge John Murray. The prosecutor, Haskins Sewell, however, is consumed by political ambition. He plans to advance his own career by framing Lillian for murder one and by railroading the judge into prison.
A fast-paced, up-all-night courtroom thriller, Court of Lies is also a harsh indictment of today’s legal system. The country has 2.3 million people behind bars and 7.5 million more on parole or probation. A major reason for so much mass incarceration is the dominance of politically motivated prosecutors, who over-sentence defendants for the sake of winning votes in their own elections and advancing their careers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 格里•斯宾塞是我们这个时代最伟大的辩护律师之一。50年来，他从未在陪审团庭审中败诉，也从未在刑事或死刑案件中败诉。他还代理过许多著名的被告，并在无数全国性电视谈话节目中露面。
斯宾塞现在为我们呈现的是美丽的莉莲•亚当斯的案件，她因谋杀富有的丈夫而在法官约翰•默里面前受审。然而，检察官哈斯金斯•休厄尔却被政治野心消耗殆尽。他计划通过诬陷莉莲谋杀一个人，并将法官草率地投入监狱来推进自己的事业。
《谎言法庭》是一部节奏快、彻夜未眠的法庭惊悚片，也是对当今法律体系的严厉控诉。这个国家有230万人身陷囹圄，还有750万人在假释或缓刑期间。如此大规模的监禁的一个主要原因是出于政治动机的检察官的主导地位，他们为了在自己的选举中赢得选票和推进自己的职业生涯而过度判处被告。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：“一本容易读的小说，一本难以忘记的小说。他们还说这本小说一定很难写。”——书目
“每当格里•斯宾塞在法庭上辩论一个案件时，整个法庭都沸腾了。现在，这位传奇律师的犯罪小说处女作，又一次受到关注。《谎言法庭》是一部极具震撼力的戏剧，充满了像斯宾塞本人一样聪明和令人惊讶的角色，情节曲折，结局你永远不会猜到。我喜欢它!”——琳达•费尔斯坦，《纽约时报》畅销书《杀手形象》的作者
Attorney Spence (Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder) makes his fiction debut with this enthralling courtroom drama set in 1954 Jackson Hole, Wyo. The integrity of Judge John Murray, a fair and thoughtful man, comes into question when he presides over the case of Lillian Adams, who’s on trial for the murder of her rich husband. Murray has known Lillian since she was a child, and he and his wife look upon her as the daughter they never had. “Yes, he was in conflict... But such was the challenge of every judge in the thousands of small one-horse towns across the land.” As the case unfolds, episodes from the lives of the protagonists—the judge, the defense attorney, the prosecutor, and the defendant—reveal their tangled histories and the genesis of their animosities and loyalties. This witty and insightful novel also raises questions about the true nature of justice. As the judge observes, “Justice must find ways to trump the law.” Spence is off to a promising start. Agent: Peter Lampack, Peter Lampack Agency. (Feb.)
I once read that Gerry Spence never lost a case in his career as a trial attorney. And if his ability to enthrall a jury was anything like his ability to enthrall a reading audience in the scintillating Court of Lies
Talk about a sultry thriller jam-packed with devious legal wrangling and duplicitous courtroom maneuvers. That’s what happens when prosecutor Haskins Sewell sets wealthy socialite Lillian Adams in his crosshairs. Whether she’s guilty or innocent of murdering her husband is secondary to how Sewell can use her prosecution to advance his own career, even if that includes setting up the presiding judge to take a fall of his own.
Court of Lies is best filed under courtroom noir, a la Michael Connolly’s superb Lincoln Lawyer series featuring Mickey Haller. Spence’s prose is as polished as his final summation to the jury, helping to make the case that he belongs alongside John Grisham and Scott Turow as the foremost legal thriller writers of our time.--Sunday Providence Journal
Lillian Adams might have killed her husband. It sure looks like she did, and the prosecuting attorney is confident, but so is the defense attorney (at least, that’s the position he takes publicly). The trial judge is trying to keep the case on an even keel, but he has a not-so-slight conflict of interest: he’s known the accused for most of her life and thinks of her like a daughter. As if that isn’t enough, he has long histories with the prosecutor and the defense attorney, and both of them have their own long history, too. Spence’s new novel is about a big case in a small town. Its courtroom scenes have the ring of truth (no surprise, considering the author’s long career as a prosecutor and defense attorney), as do the characters. This can’t have been an easy novel to write, what with the characters’ interlocking backstories and its tricky murderor-suicide plot. But it sure is an easy novel to read and a difficult one to put down.— David Pitt
About the Author/作者介绍： 格里•斯宾塞在法学院学习法庭审判，他被公认为我们这个时代最伟大的法庭律师之一。50年来，他从未在陪审团庭审中败诉，也从未在刑事或死刑案件中败诉。他为知名客户以及穷人、伤者和受诅咒者的辩护为他赢得了国际声誉。他自己的审判一直是书籍、电影和电视的主题。他获得了加州消费者律师颁发的第一个终身成就奖和美国司法协会颁发的另一个终身成就奖。他是《纽约时报》畅销书《如何争论并赢得每一次》的作者。
Gerry Spence court trials are studied in law schools, and he is universally celebrated as one of the greatest courtroom lawyers of our time. He has not lost a jury trial in fifty years and has never lost a criminal or a capital case. His defense of high-profile clients as well as of the poor, the injured, and the damned has won him international renown. His own trials have been the subject of books, film, and television. He received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Consumer Attorneys of California and another one from the American Association for Justice. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller How to Argue and Win Every Time.
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