Already eighty-five years old, and in precarious health, Stern has been persuaded to defend an old friend, Kiril Pafko. A former Nobel Prize-winner in Medicine, Pafko, shockingly, has been charged in a federal racketeering indictment with fraud, insider trading and murder. From the author of Presumed Innocent, Turow's The Last Trial recounts the final case of Kindle County's most revered courtroom advocate, Sandy Stern. A masterful legal thriller that unfolds in page-turning suspense.