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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9780307268358 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0307268357 Label: Knopf Manufacturer: Knopf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: July 08, 2008 Publisher: Knopf Release Date: July 08, 2008 Studio: Knopf Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Martin Clark’s most remarkable novel yet is the gripping, complex story of a murder cover-up that wreaks widespread havoc even as it redefines the concept of justice—a relentlessly entertaining saga that delves deeply into matters at once ambiguous and essential. While Gates Hunt chose to fight his abusive father head-on, his younger brother, Mason, eventually escaped their bitter, impoverished circumstances by earning a free ride to college and law school. And while Gates became an intransigent, compulsive felon, Mason met and married the love of his life, had a spitfire daughter, and returned to his rural hometown as the commonwealth’s attorney. But Mason’s idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward his life further unravels when Gates, convinced that his brother’s legal influence should spring him from prison, attempts to force his cooperation by means of a secret they’d both sworn to take with them to the grave. And with his closest friend and staunch ally suddenly threatened by secrets of his own, Mason ultimately finds himself facing complete ruin and desperately defending everything and everyone he holds dear. Intricately plotted and shot through with authenticity, The Legal Limit is a roller coaster of moral relevance. What should govern our actions when family loyalty challenges personal integrity, when the letter of the law defies its spirit, and when fate plays dice with our best endeavors? Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Morality Play About the Limits of LoyaltyIn 1984, Gates Hunt murdered a man in cold blood. His brother Mason helped him cover up the crime by providing an alibi and disposing of the murder weapon. Both brothers vowed to keep the secret...until one of them, motivated by greed, decided not to. The Legal Limit is a moderately paced legal thriller about the ensuing blackmail. Gates becomes a prisoner while Mason becomes a lead prosecutor and Gates presents Mason with an ultimatum: help me get out of jail or I tell the police that ... Read More Rating:  - More Than A Legal thrillerWith his third, and best novel, The Legal Limit, Martin Clark presents not only a thoroughly engrossing legal thriller, but an engaging reflection on the effects our decisions have now and in years to come. Set in his native Stuart, a small town in South central Virginia, Mr. Clark's writing beautifully captures all the characteristics and nuances of the area and its people. The writing is crisp, humourous and detailed, and the characters are all wonderfully developed. Protagonist Mason Hunt ... Read More Rating: - The Whole PackageA book that really hits every note, and I have to say it's outstanding as a thriller/mystery/legal procedural, but its very literary, too, clever and well written, somewhere between Tom Perrotta and Ann Tyler, a study of family and family loyalty with a fun, accurate, sad and hilarious picture of husbands and wives tossed in the mix. Family bonds and ties versus the "law" and society's norms. There's a murder right off the bat, and one brother, Mason Hunt helps cover for his brother Gates. This becomes ... Read More Rating:  - Hated It!The author did a good job with the characters, and did a great job in portraying an apparently real-life predicament. Notwithstanding the author's attempt to gloss over it in the final dozen or so pages of the book; this winds up being a story of a corrupt public official, and corrupt legal system. An interesting life lesson; a bad novel. Certainly not a "feel good" piece. Leaves me disappointed in the main character, and frustrated. Skip over this one. Rating: - Great insight into the quandries created in the criminal justice system.Judge Clarks new book delves into the the great quandry of our criminal justice system. What is "Justice" ?? The story of the Hunt brothers and their respective journeys through the system should make us all think of what happens when the law and what is right collide. Judge Clark uses his legal background to tell a powerful story of right and wrong and how the law is often unable to sort out the difference. The solution found by a small town judge leaves us satisfied but it does pose questions to think about ... Read More 
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