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From the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes Testimony, Scott Turow’s most twist-filled thriller to date.

Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, even his country. Invited to become a prosecutor at The Hague’s International Criminal Court, it was a chance to start afresh.

But when his first case is to examine the disappearance of four hundred Roma refugees – an apparent war crime left unsolved for ten years – it’s clear this new life won’t be an easy one . . .

Whispered rumours have the perpetrators ranging from Serb paramilitaries to the U.S. Army, but there’s no hard evidence to hold either accountable, and only a single witness to say it happened at all.

To get to the truth, Boom must question the integrity of every person linked to the case – from Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US Major General, to flirtatious barrister, Esma Czarni – as it soon becomes apparent that every party has a vested interest and no qualms in steering the investigation their way . . .

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Critic reviews

A smart, demanding new thriller . . . Testimony is a tour de force
Turow successfully recreates the roiling uncertainty of the Bosnian conflict and its consequences, the stew of racism, military aggression and crime, the willingness of ordinary people to visit spectacular cruelty on their neighbors in obedience to ethnic enmities centuries old. Testimony is admirable and important.
Turow’s lively prose and terrific cast of supporting characters make Testimony one for the beach bag. This is a guy who knows what he’s doing
If there were a Mount Rushmore for the modern legal thriller, Scott Turow would be one of the novelists immortalized in granite
A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet
An engrossing new page-turner . . . Turow has created a compelling, all-consuming drama that maintains the themes that thread through his fiction: the contradictions and conflicts of characters with secrets, often from themselves, and how idealism can be shaken when law, politics, and capitalism mix to distort fairness and justice.
Turow applies the same storytelling magic to the ICC that has drawn scores of readers into his Kindle County courtrooms, weaving fascinating details about the challenges of prosecuting war crimes into a suspenseful story of redemption and the complexities of justice.
A complex and haunting tale of war crimes that will not only satisfy his courtroom drama devotees but also readers of international thrillers
Bestseller Turow movingly evokes the horrors of the Balkan wars in this gripping thriller
A page-turning legal thriller that grapples with the aftermath of the Bosnian conflict
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I stuck with this to see if it improved. it never did. The characters were 2D, the British and Australian accents were cringe, the story was boring and I didn't care one way or the other what happened. I can't believe this was written by Scott Turow. the writing was so poor and completely lacking in any wit. The ridiculous love interest stories were totally unbelievable. Don't bother.

Really bad

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One of Turow's better recent novels. The plot revolves around an investigation at the ICC into an alleged massacre of Roma in Bosnia in 2004. An interesting setting (not, for a change, Kindle County, although the protagonist lawyer is from Kindle) and well constructed plot.
Turow should steer away from sex scenes, I'd probably skip these if I was reading the book!
A couple of gripes about the narration (speaking as a Brit):
- "Caius College Cambridge' is pronounced 'Keys' not 'Kai-us'. Forgivable perhaps for an American to mispronounce, but a British character who would surely know better does so as well...
- The accent used for Esma is atrocious - some kind of imagined posh British accent not actually heard in the UK for 50 years. Made it really hard to believe in the storyline when her dialogue is being narrated.

Compelling story with interesting plot twists

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I love Scott Turow’s books and this is a stand out example of a well plotted and interesting story set against the past Balkans conflict and the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands.

We have an engaging 55 year old attorney from familiar Kindle County with an unusual Dutch family background finding himself in an alien setting. He stumbles, falls, but unravels the truth about an allegation of the massacre of 400 Roma (gypsy) villagers in Bosnia. He also discovers sensual and emotional aspects of his personality which change his life.

The narration is truly excellent and brings the story to vivid life. Definitely a five star listen!

Gripping plot with first class narrator

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Superb legal thriller. master story teller. superbly rendered by talented narrator. kindle County fans won't be disappointed

excellent story well researched and told

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The hero of the story is, like Turow, a lawyer and I guess they share common sensitivities and insensitivity. I listened to most of the book until I reached the point where one of the characters swears, 'Jesus motherf-----g Christ'. That's as far as I got. Obviously Turow, his editor and publishers think this is ok. I don't.

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