Silent Witness (Tohy Lord #2)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Collectible - Fine/Near Fine. 6.75"x9.5". 493 pgs. Canary yellow boards w/ RNP in black on front. Black cloth spine w/gilt letters. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minor shelf wear to DJ. GIFT QUALITY. A Main Selection of the Literary Guild.
RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON'S most stunning novel, Silent Witness, is a story of rivalry, friendship, and loss, and how the tragedies of youth can change the course of our adulthood.
It begins in 1967, in a small Midwestern town scarcely touched by the tumults of the decade. Seventeen-year-old Tony Lord, Lake City's star athlete, seems destined for great things. His driving ambition to move far beyond the narrow world of his parents and his hometown is precisely what attracts Alison Taylor, the beautiful and enigmatic daughter of the town's leading family, and it is what sets Tony apart from his two closest friends: Sam Robb--mercurial and charismatic, his only rival for athletic honors--and Sam's girl, Sue Cash, whose affection for Tony may mask something more.
But suddenly everything changes. Alison Taylor is brutally murdered. Tony is the number one suspect. The town turns against him. His friendship with Sam is destroyed. When Tony leaves Lake City, vowing never to return, the loss of Sue is his sole regret.
And it is Sue's urgent phone call, twenty-seven years later, that changes Tony's life once more.