Pre-Owned Primal Fear (Hardcover)

/DIEHL WILLIAM The bestselling Diehl at his chilling best: a blockbuster blend of legal suspense and psychopathological terror that has already been sold to Paramount Pictures for a staggering sum. Virtually guaranteed to surpass Sharkey's Machine, Thai Horse, and 27 in both sales and popular acclaim, Primal Fear follows an extraordinary defense attorney as he defends a young man accused of dismembering a sainted bishop. Spine-tingling...Mr. Diehl can sustain suspense.
THE NEW YORKTIMES
Martin Vail, the brilliant bad-boy lawyer every prosecutor and politician love to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop. Vail is certain to lose, but Vail uses his unorthodox ways to good advantage when choosing his legal team--a tight group of men and women who must uncover the extraordinary truth behind the archbishop's slaughter. They do, in a heart-stopping climax unparalleled for the surprise it springs on the reader... From the Paperback edition.