High crimes

Description:

Claire Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She's a Harvard law professor and a high-profile criminal defense attorney known for taking on - and winning - tough cases. But one day this perfect life is shattered when her husband Tom Chapman is suddenly arrested by a team of government agents and accused of a brutal crime he insists he didn't commit. As Claire finds herself drawn closer into a web of duplicity and shadowy figures, she discovers that her husband is not who he says he is...that he once had a different name...even a different face. Now Claire must put her reputation on the line to defend Tom in a top-secret court-martial. As she searches for the truth, she begins to unravel an insidious, high-level government conspiracy that threatens not only her career but also her life, and the lives of her loved ones. All the while, she struggles to maintain her belief in her husband's innocence - even when all the evidence seems to indicate that he is a cold-blooded murderer.

subjects: Fiction,  Women lawyers,  Special forces (Military science),  Conspiracies,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Women lawyers, fiction,  Boston (mass.), fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction,  Fiction, legal,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  New York Times reviewed,  Deception,  Women law teachers,  Courts-martial and courts of inquiry

Places: United States