Product Description

When the body of eleven-year-old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco Bay, the police swiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve-person jury, helped along by an incompetent lawyer for the defense, are quick to find the brothers guilty - and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2310994 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 465 pages

Review
"'Richard North Patterson has a keen eye for how Washington really works. His portrait of the gun lobby is right on - both in terms of its power and its political tactics. A must read for anyone interested in the gun debate' Bill Clinton 'BALANCE OF POWER and PROTECT AND DEFEND stand as a remarkable project in popular fiction: an extension of the genre of the legal thriller to explore the morality and strategies of the US's greatest civic controversies' Mark Lawson, The Guardian 'BALANCE OF POWER is a rip-roaring novel...a great read by a masterful writer' Senator Edward Kennedy"

About the Author
Richard North Patterson’s twelve previous novels include eight consecutive international best-sellers. His novels have won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. Formerly a trial lawyer in Washington and San Francisco, Mr Patterson also served as an assistant attorney general in Ohio and as the SEC’s liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor, and now serves on the Boards of several Washington-based advocacy groups dealing with gun violence, political reform, and reproductive rights. He lives with his wife, Laurie, and their family in San Francisco and on Martha’s Vineyard.