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Summary
Identical, based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, is the story of identical twins Paul and Cass Giannis and the complex relationships between their family and their former neighbors, the Kronons. The novel focuses principally on events in 2008, when Paul is a candidate for mayor of Kindle C... Full description
Summary: |
Identical, based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, is the story of identical twins Paul and Cass Giannis and the complex relationships between their family and their former neighbors, the Kronons. The novel focuses principally on events in 2008, when Paul is a candidate for mayor of Kindle County, and Cass is released from the penitentiary, twenty-five years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Athena Kronon. The plot centers on the reinvestigation of Athena's murder, carried out together by Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for ZP, the Kronon family business, and a private investigator, Tim Brodie, eighty-one, a former homicide detective. |
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Physical Description: |
580 p. (large print) ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781455576081 1455576085 |
Author Notes: |
He has written numerous novels including Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, The Laws of Our Fathers, Personal Injuries, Ordinary Heroes, Limitations, Innocent, and Identical. His non-fiction works include One L about his experience as a law student and Ultimate Punishment about the death penalty. He has won numerous awards including the Heartland Prize in 2003 for Reversible Errors, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2004 for Ultimate Punishment, and Time Magazine's Best Work of Fiction, 1999 for Personal Injuries. He will give a keynote speech at the National writer's Congress 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) |