Pleading Guilty

Returning to the now-renowned locale of Kindle County, Scott Turow gives us Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague, his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money. Mack will descend into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city...taking you with him on his final, desperate, and courageous crusade to reinvent himself from the depths of his own shattered soul.

A re-read from a long time ago. Liked it much better with a little more mileage on my life. Mac is a great character and the 'mystery' is a good one with lots of angles. The end left me a little disappointed in Mac but I otherwise loved every minute of reading it. I don't agree that there are only victims.

I was a bit disappointed in this book, as I liked the last book I read by the author a lot more. This one was strange in some ways. The main character, a low-level partner in a law firm, seems like he's pretty smart and capable, but he kind of whines a lot about his hardships - mostly caused by drinking too much, but I suppose it started out from being an honest cop pushed into doing something dishonest, then getting caught and later being pushed to testify against his partner.

He complains about his love life, about being out of shape, about being underpaid, etc. Possible spoiler here... But when he gets a chance to have a relationship with someone he likes, another lawyer, he can't seem to handle it and eventually ruins things. And show more when he gets a chance to be a success and do the right thing, he balks. In the end, he seems to lose by getting what he thinks he wants. show less

A very good yarn with a credible, flawed hero at the core. Overegged the "Paddy" stereotype just a little but tthat doesn't take from it at all.

An okay story. It kept me listening, but I didn't really like the cynical, mean spirited protagonist. A satisfactory mystery. I just didn't like the atmosphere. Good narrator though.

Another tale from the fictional Kindle County. Here is a tale of a lawyer on his way down the ladder of success. He's searching for a partner who absconded with millions of dollars. In this case he must search the city, and investigate its characters. This is par for the course for Turrow. Not as much tension as in others, but still a pleasant, light read.