Bøger af Robert Hardaway

In the early afternoon of July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde take off from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris struck a nine inch metal strip on the runway. Seventeen seconds later, the world's only supersonic passenger airliner, the preferred transport of royalty and celebrities and capable of flying faster than a speeding bullet, careened out of control and crashed, killing in a ball of fire all 109 terrified men, women, children and crew on board. Now twenty years later, law graduate Judy Alexander attempts to solve a recent puzzling and notorious murder and follows clues which lead her to revisit the events of the Concorde tragedy. In her quest for justice she much ask herself the existential question first posed by Thornton Wilder in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Is there a direction and meaning in lives beyond the individual's own will?

When beautiful and idealistic law student Judy Alexander signs up for the Exoneration Clinic at a financially challenged law school in mid-town Manhattan, she has hopes of investigating and righting wrongful convictions. Instead, she is drawn into a media-hyped case in Texas in which a man accused of murder declines all legal assistance and offers to plead guilty--but only in exchange for being sentenced to death. Convinced of his innocence, Judy follows leads which lead first to Catalina Island off the coast of California, and then inexorably to a nineteen year old cold case in which a young girl mysteriously disappeared without a trace while visiting the iconic French landmark of Mont St. Michel, an ancient medieval monastery atop an isolated island which was occupied by a contingent of Nazi soldiers during World War II.