"Serious readers should be reading [Scott] Turow, because he is not just one of our best crime novelists; he is also one of our better novelists," declared writer/critic Wendy Lesser in the New York Times Book Revie w. Lesser went on to note that what Turow has done "in book after book, is to give us page turners that are also pleasing literary artifacts, mysteries that are also investigations into complicated social questions and complex human emotions." An attorney-turned-writer, "Turow's more than two decades at the bar have taught him that the world is far more likely to be gray than black-and-white, a perception that is central to all his novels," noted Jonathan Yardley in the Washingt on Post Book World. Turow himself explained his major thematic content to Robert McCrum in a Guardian Unlimited interview. "All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie...