High Crimes » (First Edition)

Joseph Finder is the author of several previous thrillers, most recently the New York Times bestsellers Paranoia, Company Man, and Killer Instinct. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Claire Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She's a star Harvard Law School professor and high-powered attorney. Her second husband, Tom Chapman, is a charismatic and successful money manager who adores her and her six-year-old daughter.

But then one day a random burglary at their beautiful Boston home triggers a chain of events that turns their world upside down. A police investigation reveals the chilling fact that Tom is not who he says he is. Once he had a different name—even a different face. Suddenly this stranger, her husband, is put on trial for a crime he insists he didin't commit—an unspeakable atrocity that happened thriteen years ago. Now Claire must lay her reputation on the line to defend him in a top secret court martial where all the evidence is classified, the rules are unlike any she has ever known—and the real stakes are higher than Claire or anyone else can possibly suspect.

Washington Post

Deliciously absorbing...Exciting...full of hairpin turns...High Crimes generates lots of inside-the-bowels-of-the-Pentagon intrigue, but it's the psychological mystery of Tom's identity that really ratchets up the suspense here.