Don’t let the complexity of this case fool you, Ladies and Gentlemen. Underneath all the jargon and paperwork, all the off shore bank accounts and derivative transactions, what happened here is really very simple. Grace Brookstein stole. She stole because she was greedy. She stole because she thought she could get away with it.”
He looked at Grace one last time.
“She still thinks she can get away with it. It’s up to you to prove her wrong.”
Grace Brookstein watched District Attorney Angelo Michele sit down. He’d given a bravura performance, far more eloquent than Frank Hammond’s. The jury looked as if they wanted to burst into spontaneous applause.
If he weren’t trying to destroy me, I’d feel sorry for him. Poor man, he’s tried so hard. And such passion! Perhaps, if we’d met in other circumstances, we’d have been friends?
The general consensus in the media was that the jury would take at least a day to deliberate. The mountain of evidence in the case was so enormous, it was hard to see how they could review it any quicker. In fact, they came back to Court 14 in less than an hour. Just like Frank Hammond said they would.
The judge spoke solemnly. “Have you reached your verdict?”
The foreman, a black man in his fifties, nodded. “We have, Your Honor.”
“And how do you find the defendant? Guilty, or not guilty?”
The foreman looked directly at Grace Brookstein.
And smiled.
About the Author
Novelist and screenwriter SIDNEY SHELDON remains one of the world’s top bestselling authors. His books have sold more than 300 million copies and have been published in dozens of languages—Guinness World Records heralds him as one of the most translated authors in the world. He is also the only writer to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar award.
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“Tense, exciting courtroom drama…poignant love story…and suspense and terror enough to keep the reader eagerly devouring each page until the very end.”
—Dallas Morning News
“A master storyteller at the top of his game.”
—USA Today
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—San Diego Union
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—Pittsburgh Press
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“Sheldon is a master teller of tales, a wizard of words who casts an uncanny spell over his readers.”
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“Memorable…packed full of emotion—romance, high suspense, pathos.”
—Columbus Dispatch
“First rate…Sheldon has another well-deserved best-seller.”
—Sacramento Union
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Books by Sidney Sheldon
The Other Side of Me
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
The Sky Is Falling
Tell Me Your Dreams
The Best Laid Plans
Morning, Noon & Night
Nothing Lasts Forever
The Stars Shine Down
The Doomsday Conspiracy
Memories of Midnight
The Sands of Time
Windmills of the Gods
If Tomorrow Comes
Master of the Game
Rage of Angels
Bloodline
A Stranger in the Mirror
The Other Side of Midnight
The Naked Face
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 1980 by The Sidney Sheldon Family Limited Partnership
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