Silent Witness by North Richard Patterson

1. By:
Richard North Patterson

2. T
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Born: February 22, 1947 ( Berkeley, California )
High School: Bay High School ( 1964 )
College: Ohio Wesleyan University ( 1968 )

3. He is the author of Eyes of a Child, The Spire,Degree of Guilt, Eclipse, The
Race, Exile, and more than a dozen other bestselling and critically acclaimed
novels. Formerly a trial lawyer, he was the SEC liaison to the Watergate special
prosecutor and has served on the boards of several Washington advocacy
groups. He lives on Martha’s Vineyard and in San Francisco and Cabo San Lucas
with his wife, Dr. Nancy Clair.

4. Bibliography
The Lasko Tangent (1979)
The Outside Man (1981)
Escape the Night (1983)
Private Screening (1985)
Degree of Guilt (1993)
Eyes of a Child (1995)
Caroline Masters (1995)
Silent Witness (1997)
No Safe Place (1998)
Dark Lady (1999)
Protect and Defend (2000)
Balance of Power (2003)
Conviction (2005)
Exile (2007)
The Race (2007)
Eclipse (2009)
The Spire (2009)
In The Name Of Honor (2010)
The Devil's Light (2011)

5. Silent Witness was a thriller book written by Richard
North Patterson in 1997. It was his 8th published book in
which was the reason why he won the #1 New York Times
Bestselling author in that time. He became famous
because all of his writings or books were been patronage
by millions of readers worldwide. Aside from that, Silent
Witness received good comments from different famous
persons.
-“[An] intense courtroom drama… As startling as the bang of
a gavel.”
—People
“Enthralling… The denouement is powerful.”—Los Angeles
Times Book Review
“This generation's best writer of legal thrillers… His
strongest fiction to date.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Chilling.”—The Washington Post Book World

6. The story begins when Tony Lord was practicing baseball on the field. After
the murder of his high school sweetheart left him shattered, Tony Lord
vowed never to return to his Ohio hometown of Lake City. Twenty-eight
years later, Tony is a successful California criminal lawyer with a beautiful
celebrity wife. He's living the good life…until long-buried memories come
crashing down when he hears from an old friend, who needs his help. Sam
Robb is a track coach at Lake City High. He swears he is not responsible for
the death of one of his female team members…even though forensic
evidence reveals that he's the father of her unborn child. Back when they
were teenagers, Sam stood by Tony when he was a suspect in his young
girlfriend's murder-and Tony desperately wants to do the same for him
today. In doing so, Tony will have to revisit his troubled past and probe the
darkest secrets of small-town life to get to the truth. And what he will find
is more shocking than he ever could have imagined….

7. Tony Lord – a baseball player; soon become a criminal lawyer; accused
for murdering his first love when they were still in high school.
Sam Stood – a teacher and a track coach at Lake City High; accused of
murdering one of his students.
Kate Robb – the wife of the accused teacher.
Saul Ruben - the local attorney who defended Tony back in high
school, when he was accused of murdering his teenage girlfriend.
and the others……..

8. Tony Lord

9. Saul Ruben

10. Kate Robb

11. Tony Lord being questioned by Saul Ruben