College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same.
Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.
As Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Joe, along with his skeptical female neighbor, throws himself into uncovering the truth, but he is hamstrung in his efforts by having to deal with his dangerously dysfunctional mother, the guilt of leaving his autistic brother vulnerable, and a haunting childhood memory.
Thread by thread, Joe unravels the tapestry of Carl’s conviction. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Will Joe discover the truth before it’s too late to escape the fallout?
艾伦•艾丝肯斯
Allen Eskens
美国资深辩护律师。出生于美国密苏里州杰斐逊市,就读明尼苏达大学,获得新闻学学位,后就读法学院,定居明尼苏达曼卡多。
作为有20多年工作经验的辩护律师,作者将亲身经历的众多骇人听闻的悬案融会贯通,写出了一系列犯罪悬疑佳作,如《我们掩埋的人生》 《另一个幌子》 《天堂可能坠落》等,并凭借《我们掩埋的人生》成功跻身美国一流畅销书作家行列。
一个人的人生路会由什么决定呢? 我们在自己的人生路上羡慕、感叹别人的成功、辉煌;也有那么多的人在抱怨自己的失败,诅咒命运的不公平;而更多的人是在为了自己的生活努力挣扎、奋斗着!人生呀,总是要有些坎坷、反转、知足才好呀!这大概也是主人公的心路历程吧! ...
评分 评分 评分前几天我看了一部电影——《赎罪》,两者都有一个共同点,都是因强奸罪冤枉入狱,但不同的是前者直接被关进监狱,后者是直接认罪,虽是冤枉但是因为对越战时期所做的一切赎罪而入狱。在上个世纪,发生了无数冤案,可能是当时科技不够发达,可能是背景环境的原因,但却破坏了无...
被书评骗了,好久没看这么糟糕的小说了。通篇male ego爆炸。
评分Too predictable. 挺流畅,但就像是照着写作教科书做出的流水线产品。
评分作为一本消磨时间的小说还是很称职的,但是结尾太过drama…不知道是不是因为悲剧会更让人难忘,而happy ending却总有不真实的感觉。
评分This mystery debut contains enough twists and turns to keep me interested, but at the same time, the plots have so many clichés, making me feel like I was watching a Hollywood movie – everything will always work out at the end.
评分讲真开始我还蛮喜欢的,但是最后那段大抓马太过了反而俗了……
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