Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Carter, Stephen L. |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 5/27/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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• INSPIRATION FOR THE MGM+ ORIGINAL SERIES
• ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, rivetingnovel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park isset in twoprivileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Easternseabord—families who summer at Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle of an Ivy Leaguelaw school.
“Beautifully written and cleverly plotted. A rich, complex family saga, one deftly woven through a fine legal thriller.” —John Grisham
Talcott Garland is a successful law professor, devoted father, andhusband of a beautiful and ambitious woman, whose future desires may threaten thefamily he holds so Talcott’s father,Judge Oliver Garland, a disgracedformer Supreme Court nominee, is found dead under suspicioius circumstances, Talcottwonders if he may have been murdered. Guided by the elements of a mysterious puzzlethat his father left,Talcott must risk his marriage, his career and even his lifein his quest for justice.
Superbly written and filled with memorable characters,
The Emperor of Ocean Park is both a stunning literary achievement anda grand literaryentertainment.
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