"Life would seem to have gone well
for George Mason. His days as a criminal defence lawyer are long behind
him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in
Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is
brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the
law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is
it his wife’s recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening emails
he has started to receive? And what is it about this horrific case of
sexual assault, now on trial in his courtroom, that has led him to
question his fitness to judge?
In Limitations, Scott Turow, the master of the legal thriller,
returns to Kindle County with a page-turning entertainment that asks the
biggest questions of all. Ingeniously, and with great economy of style,
Turow probes the limitations not only of the law, but of human
understanding itself."