{"product_id":"the-mercy-rule-9780440222828","title":"The Mercy Rule","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A stylish whodunit . . . Lescroart [is] in his best form yet.”—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce Dismas Hardy was a cop. Now he spends his days in a lawyer’s suit, billing hours to a corporate client in a downtown San Francisco office. Hardy’s wife and kids like it that way. Then one client changes everything. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGraham Russo, a former baseball star, is charged with murdering his dying father. Was it suicide, the last desperate act of a dying man? Was it murder? Or mercy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, as a carnival of reporters, activists, cops, lovers, and families throng around the case, Dismas Hardy is going to trial with a client he doesn’t trust, a key witness he cannot believe, and a system that almost destroyed him once. For Dismas, this case will challenge everything he believes about the law, about his family, and about himself. Because a chilling truth is beginning to emerge about an old man’s lonely death. And what Dismas knows could put him next in line to die. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Mercy Rule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Very entertaining . . . a large and emotionally sprawling novel.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“As usual in a Lescroart novel, character dominates plot as the author proves, yet again, that resonant drama can be found in family.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“An edge-of-the-seat legal thriller that has it all—hot-button issues, deception, greed, corruption, and a labyrinthine plot that will keep you guessing until the very last page.”\u003cb\u003e—Faye Kellerman\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62245809586563,"sku":"9780440222828","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780440222828.jpg?v=1785407822","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-mercy-rule-9780440222828","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}