The Legal Limit

Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear.

Intricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, The Legal Limit is an exploration of the judicial system's roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law.

Author: Martin Clark
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 06/02/2009
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.32w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780307388667
ISBN10: 0307388662
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Thrillers | Crime
- Fiction | Thrillers | Legal

About the Author
Martin Clark, a circuit court judge, lives in Stuart, Virginia. His first novel, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, was a New York Times Notable Book, a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award, and appeared on several best-seller lists.