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Book 2013

Defending Jacob

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Publisher
Bantam
Published
2013
  • Murder
  • Families
  • High school students
  • Fathers and sons
  • Fiction
  • Investigation
  • Suburban life
  • Public prosecutors

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.