Scott Turow was born in Chicago in 1949. He graduated with high honors from Amherst College in 1970, receiving
a fellowship to Stanford University Creative Writing Center which he attended from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1975
Turow taught creative writing at Stanford. In 1975, he entered Harvard Law School, graduating with honors in 1978.
From 1978 to 1986, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, serving as lead prosecutor in several
high-visibility federal trials investigating corruption in the Illinois judiciary. In 1995, in a major pro bono
legal effort he won a reversal in the murder conviction of a man who had spent 11 years in prison, many of them
on death row, for a crime another man confessed to.
Today, he is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal an international law firm, where
his practice centers on white-collar criminal litigation and involves representation of individuals and companies
in all phases of criminal matters. Turow has been married to Annette Turow, a painter, since 1971.
Summary
To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing,
multi-million-dollar personal injury lawyer is caught offering bribes, he's forced to wear a wire. Even as the
besieged attorney looks after his ailing wife, Feaver must also make tapes that will hurl his friends, his enemies,
his city, and a particular FBI undercover agent into a crisis of conscience and law. Now Robbie Feaver is making
the play of his life.
