Amazon.com Review

Rufus Harms is rotting in a Virginia military prison. As readers learn in the terse opening of The Simple Truth, he was convicted 25 years ago of the brutal killing of a young girl. Readers also learn that Rufus did not commit the crime; out of a haze of memories and with fragments of evidence, he has reconstructed the truth about the horrid event that ruined his life. He knows his discovery could cost him his life, so he breaks from prison after sending an appeal to the Supreme Court that details a massive conspiracy tied into the foundations of Washington.

The complex drama of Rufus Harms is only one of the interwoven threads in this massive, violent legal thriller that also draws from the vocabulary of hard-boiled crime fiction. Baldacci offers glimpses into the arcane politics of the high court, where Justice Elizabeth Knight wages war with the manipulative Chief Justice Harold Ramsay. And while Harms struggles to keep out of harm's way and the justices duke it out, Supreme Court law clerk Sara Evans toils with ex-cop John Fiske to discover the import of Harms's appeal (and, simultaneously, to uncover the murderer of Mike Fiske, John's law clerk-brother and the original holder of the appeal). Their interest in the document apparently draws the attention of the same deadly conspirators who manipulated Harms over two decades earlier. While the armed mayhem sometimes rises to the point of excess, Baldacci's novel continues to offer new surprises until the final pages. --Patrick O'Kelley

From Library Journal

Will Baldacci's most recent title be another Winner, like his recent New York Times best seller? Here, a man convicted of a murder he's convinced he committed suddenly realizes that he's been framed and launches an appeal that leads to more murder.
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L’europe en l’an 1945, dans cette uchronie, est conquise et unifiée par Napoléon, et va de la Bretagne à Vladivostock. Or la Chine, dirigée par des racistes nationalistes, a décidé de l’envahir. Cette fresque est l’histoire d’une guerre titanesque - à la façon seconde guerre mondiale - où combattent les idées humanistes et celles qui prônent la loi du plus fort. Batailles aériennes, terrestres, histoires de combattants, du président jusqu’à l’homme de troupe, histoire d’une famille, tout ceci est Millecrabe.

Siet Tammens (1914), dochter van een Groningse herenboer, heeft van jongs af aan een een grote mate van onafhankelijkheid en een sterk rechtvaardigheidsgevoel. Als tijdens de Duitse bezetting de jodenvervolging begint, gaat ze hulp bieden. Ze wordt, als een van de weinige vrouwen, een kopstuk in het georganiseerde Groningse verzet. Begin 1944 moet Siet onderduiken. In juni wordt ze, na verraad, toch gearresteerd. Ze wordt ter dood veroordeeld, maar door de paniek in september 1944, als de bevrijding even dichtbij lijkt, wordt het vonnis niet voltrokken. Het einde van de oorlog beleeft ze ergens in Noord Duitsland, lopend onderweg naar huis. Weer in Groningen raakt Siet Tammens bijzonder teleurgesteld over de terugkeer van de oude verzuilde structuren, terwijl er in het verzet juist zo eendrachtig was samengewerkt. In 1946 emigreert ze daarom naar Curaçao. Na achttien jaar keert ze terug naar Nederland. De oorlog blijft voor haar een beladen onderwerp, waar ze liever over zwijgt. Uiteindelijk besluit ze toch haar verhaal te vertellen, omdat het misschien iets kan bijdragen aan de strijd tegen onrecht en discriminatie.
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