Jodi Picoult: The Pact
Fiction - Crime/Detective
Published by Hodder & Stoughton 2008
Just like Picoult's other crime based novels, the reader finds oneself completely trusting the alleged criminal protagonist. Picoult presents these characters as utterly decent people, who show no sign that something evil may lurk beneath, but who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In these novels, we take a leap of faith in order to trust human kind, to restore that which has long gone, the ability to believe in the innocent rather than to wrongly convict and judge them.
In The Pact, Chris has just seen his girlfriend die right in front of him and now the evidence is stacking up against him. Throughout the novel, Chris has the countenance of an innocent, decent man who is not capable of committing this horrendous crime but regrettably, the witness who could help him reveal the truth is gone forever. It is Chris' word against Emily's character!
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