The eagerly anticipated sequel to the huge bestselling landmark legalthriller "Presumed Innocent". A man is sitting on a bed. He is my father.The body of a woman is beneath the covers. She was my mother. This is notreally where the story starts. Or how it ends. But it is the moment my mindreturns to, the way I always see them...In "Presumed Innocent", RustySabich, family man and the number-two prosecutor of Kindle County, washanded an explosive case - the brutal murder of a woman who happened to behis former lover. A shocking turn of events suddenly transformed him fromthe accuser into the accused, and plunged him into a personal nightmare.Now 20 years have passed, and Rusty Sabich, 60 years old and the chiefjudge of an appellate court, sits on a bed where his dead wife Barbaralies. She has died under mysterious circumstances, and her death will onceagain pit Rusty against his old nemesis, Tommy Molto, the district attorneywho tried to prosecute him for the murder of his lover all those yearsago...