{"product_id":"the-legal-limit-9780307388667","title":"The Legal Limit","description":"Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, \u003cb\u003eThe Legal Limit\u003c\/b\u003e is an exploration of the judicial system's roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Clark, a circuit court judge, lives in Stuart, Virginia. His first novel, \u003cb\u003eThe Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living\u003c\/b\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award, and appeared on several best-seller lists.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649775145234,"sku":"9780307388667","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_acbb0522-46a1-474e-8138-bb6e7f1a07bc.jpg?v=1733273323","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-legal-limit-9780307388667","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}