'Ordinary Heroes is a beautifully wrought, finely achleved reconstruction of an elusive, clandestine life by Scott Turow at the very top of his form. So be warned, a book to start on Friday night'
Alan Furst
All parents keep secrets from their children. My father, it seemed, kept more than most ...
Whilst mourning the death of his father, courtroom journalist Stewart Dubin decides to research the life of a man he had always respected, always admired, but possibly never quite knew...
As a young, idealistic lawyer during the last terrible months of the Second World War, David Dubin was sent to the European Front - ostensibly to bring charges against a brave American hero, Robert Martin, who had suddenly, inexplicably, gone local. No longer following orders from his superiors, Martin has become a liability and General Rollie Tweedle wants him neutralized.
But as Dubin learns more about Martin and the demons possessing him, he finds himself falling in love with Martin's enigmatic ex-mistress - a woman of supreme bravery and dangerous anger. And someone who will do anything to protect her comrade-in-arms...
Stewart discovers a journal written by his father - and learns of his incredible courage in the face of battle, reading first-hand of the shattering moral consequences for those caught in the chaos of war and, finally, the secret he had died protecting .•.
PRAISE FOR SCOTT TUROW
[Turow has set new standards for the genre, most notably in the depth and subtlety of his characterizations... the kind of reading pleasure that only the best novelists - genre or otherwise
- can provide New York Times
"Turow shows why he deserves to be top of the charts'
Independent on Sunday
