High Crimes

by Joseph Finder

published 1998

Publisher: William Morrow

Claire Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She’s a Harvard law professor and a high-profile criminal defense attorney known for taking on– and winning– tough cases. But one day this perfect life is shattered when her husband Tom Chapman is suddenly arrested by a team of government agents and accused of a brutal crime he insists he didn’t commit. As Claire finds herself drawn closer into a web of duplicity and shadowy figures, she discovers that her husband is not who he says he is…that he once had a different name…even a different face.

Now Claire must put her reputation on the line to defend Tom in a top-secret court-martial. As she searches for the truth, she begins to unravel an insidious, high-level government conspiracy that threatens not only her career but also her life, and the lives of her loved ones. All the whole, she struggles to maintain her belief in her husband’s innocence– even when all the evidence seems to indicate that he is a cold-blooded murderer.

With its vivid characters, razor-edge suspense, and an irresistible narrative force, High Crimes will seize you from the first page and hold you spellbound to the last.