INNOCENT

Book ID/图书代码： 02330009B34237

English Summary/英文概要： A man is sitting on a bed. He is my father. The body of a woman is beneath the covers. She was my mother. This is not really where the story starts. Or how it ends. But it is the moment my mind returns to, the way I always see them . . .

In Presumed Innocent, Rusty Sabich, family man and the number-two prosecutor of Kindle County, was handed an explosive case - the brutal murder of a woman who happened to be his former lover. A shocking turn of events suddenly transformed him from the accuser into the accused, and plunged him into a personal nightmare.

Now 20 years have passed, and Rusty Sabich, 60 years old and the chief judge of an appellate court, sits on a bed where his dead wife Barbara lies. She has died under mysterious circumstances, and her death will once again pit Rusty against his old nemesis, Tommy Molto, the district attorney who tried to prosecute him for the murder of his lover all those years ago . . .

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 床邊坐著一個男人，那是我的父親。床單下面是一具女性屍體，那是我的母親。這並不是故事真正的開端，也不是結局。但這卻使我重新回想起，我經常看到他們的景象…
主人翁Rusty Sabich是一個有家室的人，並且是Kindle County排行第二的檢察官，最近被一樁爆炸性的案子所起訴：殘忍謀殺自己的前情人。這個震驚的事件刹那間將他從原告轉為被告，並將他推進無邊的夢魘中。
如今20年過去了，上訴法庭的審判長，已經60歲的Rusty，坐在他死去的妻子Barbara曾經躺過的床上。Barbara的死至今是個謎，而這件事也使他不得不一次又一次的和老對手：Tommy Molto，這個想要檢舉他謀殺妻子的人……(ZH & VL)

Awards/获奖情况：獲得國際驚悚作家協會（The International Thriller Writers）「驚悚小說獎」（Thriller Award）大師獎

Agent: UK, translation, 1st serial. Pub:audio.
-Debut at #3 on New York Times Fiction Bestseller List (5/23/2010)
-Amazon.com Best of 2010
-Publishers Weekly Best of 2010
-In development for cable-channel TNT Tuesday Night Mystery movie

In-print figures from Grand Central publishing total an impressive nearly 725,000 copies in hardcover and trade paperback editions combined!

Foreign rights licensed to Pan Macmillan (UK), Mondadori (Italy), Editions Lattes (France), Blessing Verlag (Germany), Luitingh (Holland), Buchmann (Poland), Random House Mondadori (Spain/Latin America), Bungeishunju (Japan), ERA (Bulgaria), Golden Bough (Korea), Book Innovation (Thailand), Marso (Serbia), Record (Brazil), Aryeh Nir (Israel), Hovedland (Denmark), Arab Scientific Publishing (Arabic), Europa-America (Portugal), Harlenic Hellas (Greece), China Critic Press (Mainland China), Business Weekly (Taiwan)

PW Talks with Scott Turow
Molto, Bene!
by Lenny Picker -- Publishers Weekly, March 29, 2010
Rusty Sabich, the protagonist of Scott Turow’s bestselling debut, Presumed Innocent (1987), returns in Innocent (Reviews, Mar. 8).

How long had you been planning this book?
For most of the two decades since Presumed Innocent, I was not thinking about a sequel. About five years ago, I suddenly became more open to the idea. I had noticed a Post-It that was on my desk that read “a man is sitting on a bed in which the dead body of a woman lies,” and realized that Rusty Sabich was that man. I had to decide who the woman was, and pretty quickly decided it was his wife, Barbara. I was really afraid of self-imitation. I was proud of Presumed Innocent and did not want to diminish it. At the end of the day, it was really the strength of the idea that overpowered my doubts.

How early on did you know who was responsible for Barbara’s death?
I wrote for a good two years without knowing the answer. When the ending came to me, I was really pleased because it was both surprising in the context of the novel and resonated with the previous book; it also really deepens the reader’s understanding of both Rusty and Barbara.

Readers of the first book may wonder about the more positive portrayal of prosecutor Tommy Molto.
Presumed Innocent presented Molto as a wretched little zealot. He surprised me here. I’ve been lucky that in the course of my work as a novelist there’s always been a character who runs away with the book. When I wrote the first draft of the first chapter featuring Molto, the voice in it and the sense of his character was so strong that I just came back to it again and again. With Molto, I use a third-person past tense, as opposed to the first-person present tense voice I use for Rusty, and that helps create a distinct sense of two guys who see the world very differently.

How is Rusty different in this book?
He displays worse judgment overall; he’s older and more desperate. He traces his own mistakes back to the trauma of his first trial for murder. As a criminal defense lawyer, I was always deeply impressed by the toll taken on my clients who’ve been lucky enough to walk away. He’s clearly making the same mistakes all over again, something that I’ve seen my friends, and even myself, do. This is a guy reaching for something that he knows at the end of the day will not fulfill the hopes he has for it.

此书已被翻拍成电影，更多信息请访问http://www.tnt.tv/mysterymovienight/ -Claire/2011-11-21

About the Author/作者介绍： 斯考特•特罗（Scott Turow)世界知名作家，美国最畅销的悬念推理小说家之一，曾任美国作协主席。特罗根据自己当律师和检察官的阅历和经验，迄今共创作8部小说和两部非虚构类作品，他的作品被翻译超过25种语言，全世界销量2500余万册，其中4 部小说被改编成电影，包括他的处女作《无罪的罪人》（Presumed Innocent）。杜罗获奖无数，包括《时代》杂志年度最佳小说奖、英国犯罪推理作家协会的金匕首奖、爱伦•坡奖、哈特兰奖、罗伯特•肯尼迪图书奖等。

Scott Turow is the author of eight bestselling novels, including Presumed Innocent (FSG, 1987) and The Burden of Proof (FSG, 1990), and two nonfiction books, including One L (FSG, 1977), about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and have been adapted for film and television.

Format:电子手稿

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：SOLD

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