Defending Jacob
By: William Lanlady
FOUR out of FIVE stars
my thoughts:
Great mystery thriller book! Defending Jacob is about well... family. It really does push you to think how far would I go to defend my child. You always tell yourself to the end of the world of course... well... that's pretty much how far Andy, the father of Jacob, is pushed. How far does bullying go? How much goes on at school with your student that you don't really know about? Then the blow comes... Oh man! It's such a whammy packed book.
I would for sure put this book on my bookshelf for another read. Very good flow to reading and just in general a really good read.
the run down:
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis—a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.
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