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Violence
A lot
War crime massacre investigated; some violence
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Brief romantic affair
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate alcohol use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
War crimes and genocide as subject matter; international justice themes
What this book is about
A standalone Scott Turow legal thriller (2017) in which Bill ten Boom, a middle-aged American attorney, takes a job with the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate a Bosnian massacre from the 1990s. But what seems like a historical atrocity has fresh political implications. Turow's international expansion of his signature legal thriller framework, examining war crimes and justice.
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War crimes and massacre
Sexual affair
International criminal justice
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