Patterson's most stunning novel to date offers a powerful portrayal of the complexities of male friendship, of the darkest recesses of love, and of the ways in which the past stakes it claim upon the present. When attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend his former high school best friend who's been accused of murder, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his past.
Richard North Patterson (in Berkeley, California) is an American fiction writer and political commentator. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law, and a recipient of that University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Alumni and its President’s Award for Excellence. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.; and was the SEC’s liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. - Wikipedia
He has written more than 20 novels, with the most recent one, Eden In Winter (2014), marking his retirement as a novelist.
