Wrong Man Running

Summary

2021 Audiobook Edition, Narrated by Graeme Malcolm Lee Child rated this book as "beautifully written and beautifully imagined" and concluded that it "might be the best psychological suspense you'll read this year - or this decade." The Kirkus reviewer said, "It's like some excellent Hitchcock - The 39 Steps, North by Northwest." And according to a starred review in Booklist, "This is a tremendously exciting book, extremely well written (the dialogue fairly sings) and extremely well constructed...and it is as good as the best offerings of Turow, Grisham, and other legal-thriller hitmakers. In a genre stuffed to bursting with good material, this one stands out.” Brilliant and ambitious, prosecutor Rick Corinth is one of Manhattan's top legal minds and the heir-apparent to the New York County District Attorney's seat. When assigned to a case involving a series of sadistic rapes, Corinth is shocked that he knows almost all the women. Then the case takes an unexpected turn: The rape victims, all prominent women at the pinnacles of their professions, identify him as their attacker. It's a nasty setup to be sure - a plot to bring his rising star crashing down; or is it? After all, Corinth has a history of blackouts and "lost time". Could he be capable of committing such horrific crimes and not even know it? As the physical evidence against him piles up, Corinth goes on the run, desperate to unmask the real perpetrator before the police catch up to him. But will his search ferret out a brutal sadist? Or will he discover a vicious criminal a little closer to home? 

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