The Pardon

By James Grippando

Subjects: Jack Swyteck (Fictitious character), Domestic fiction, Mystery fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fiction, Lawyers, Fathers and sons, Fiction, legal, Florida, fiction, Legal stories, Capital punishment, Lawyers, fiction, Attorney and client, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Executions and executioners, nyt:e-book-fiction=2013-02-03, Large type books, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, Detective and mystery stories

Description: An estranged father and son -- one a brilliant defense lawyer, the other the governor of Florida -- must overcome their differences to stop a cunning psychopath.Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- to die in the electric chair.