jorn's Full Review: Scott Turow - Personal Injuries
Scott Turow is by far the most literary author in the legal-thriller genre. He was also intimately involved in Chicago's crooked-judges sting of the 1980s-- Operation Greylord-- and this new one is a fairly low-key exploration of the mechanics of such a Federal sting operation (a 'Greylord procedural').
To bring it to life he takes special care in portraying a handful of central characters-- the sleazy-but-lovable lawyer who wears the wire, his dying wife, the undercover FBI 'nanny', the various judges and their henchmen, the ambitious prosecutor, etc.
I enjoyed the slow, steady pace at which Turow unfolds his story... but I found the ending a bit too clever, introducing way too many unexpected twists in the last few chapters. (When you get this far into a novel, you feel like you've done your homework and should be allowed to coast over the finishline, but here you have to rethink everything multiple times.)
Among Turow's works, though, I'd still place this as my favorite. The mechanics of the sting are fascinating and beautifully told.
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