TESTIMONY
Fiction Sticking to your ribs TESTIMONY By Scott Turow 477 pp. Grand Central Publishing Group Reviewed by Jack Shakely In our current world of courtroom drama novels, we have John Grisham, who’s been phoning them in for years, James Patterson, who turns out to be not a single author, but a factory of writers, and Scott Turow. Thank goodness. Turow is a master of legal drama, and Testimony may be his best to date. Its sharp observations and page-turning plot twists are pure Turow and pure pleasure. Like his other nine novels, Testimony begins in Kindle County (a poorly disguised Cook County and Turow’s Yoknapatawpha), but it quickly launches attorney William ten Boom across the Atlantic to The Hague, and its various courts for war crimes and international disputes. Turow writes in the first person, so ten Boom and the reader can explore together the arcane world of The Hague, where lawyers still wear black robes with starched lacy dickies and nothing is exactly as it seems. Turo...