Closing Arguments by Frederick Busch (Paperback)

“The story of a shocking murder trial, a disintegrating marriage and an obsessive love affair, Closing Arguments is also the story of what happens when a man decides there need no longer be any rules.
Mark Brennan, hailed to his embarrassment by his wife and neighbours as a Vietnam war hero, has finally come home to rest as a middle-aged lawyer in upstate New York. There he agrees to defend Estella Pritchett, a young social worker accused of murdering her lover during rough sex in a motel.
Then, almost without warning, Mark and his client begin a dangerous affair: a destructive mutual attraction that will drive them both to the furthest limits of pleasure and pain …”

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