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Betrayal : a novel / John Lescroart.

ISBN: 9780525950394
ISBN: 9780451225702 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0525950397
Physical Description: 422 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Dutton, 2008.

Summary:

San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy and detective Abe Glitsky return in a suspenseful tale of love, betrayal and national secrets. Hardy is called upon to handle the appeal to overturn the murder conviction of a National Guard reservist. The case will lead him into the realm of assassination and treason

When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time - the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful schoolteacher back home in the States; followed by a a deadly incident in which Nolan's apparent mistake results in the death of an innocent Iraqi family as well as seven men in Evan's platoon. As the murky relationship between the U.S. government and its private contractors plays out in the personal drama of these two men, and the consequences become a desperate matter of life and death, Dismas Hardy begins to uncover a terrible and perilous truth that takes him far beyond the case and into the realm of assassination and treason.