The Mercy Rule by John Lescroart - ISBN: 9780440222828
Paperback
Mercy or murder? A lawyer risks all for a dying man.

The Mercy Rule

A Novel

  • Paperback

    640 pages

  • Release Date

    10 August 1999

Summary

A stylish whodunit …Lescroart is in his best form yet.

Once Dismas Hardy was a cop. Now he spends his days in a lawyer’s suit, billing hours to a corporate client in a downtown San Francisco office. Hardy’s wife and kids like it that way. Then one client changes everything.

Graham Russo, a former baseball star, is charged with murdering his dying father. Was it suicide, the last desperate act of a dying man? Was it murder? Or mercy?

Now, as a carnival of reporters, act…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780440222828
ISBN-10:0440222826
Author:John Lescroart
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House USA Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:640
Release Date:10 August 1999
Weight:352g
Dimensions:34mm x 108mm x 173mm
The Mercy Rule by John Lescroart - ISBN: 9780440222828
108 × 173 mm
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A4
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Very entertaining… a large and emotionally sprawling novel.”
Chicago Tribune

“A taut read… Another winner.”
San Francisco Chronicle

“A thought-provoking and important novel.”
–Nelson DeMille

About The Author

John Lescroart

John Lescroart is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous legal thrillers and mysteries, most of them set in contemporary San Francisco. Among his novels are The Fall, The Keeper, The Ophelia Cut, The Hunt Club, The Second Chair, The First Law, Nothing but the Truth, and Dead Irish, as well as two novels featuring Auguste Lupa, the reputed son of Sherlock Holmes.

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