Loss of Innocence Patterson, Davi and North Patterson, Richard

Two bestselling thriller writers. One courtroom drama. Richard North Patterson, known for his legal nail-biters, teams up with his son for a story that asks: what happens when a young lawyer's first murder case forces him to choose between justice and survival? The defendant is a charismatic sociopath. The evidence is damning. But nothing in law school prepared this rookie attorney for the moral compromises, the manipulation, and the way innocence — his own and others' — gets stripped away in the pursuit of a verdict. The Pattersons write with the precision of someone who's actually been in that courtroom, felt that pressure. If you're into legal thrillers with psychological weight, or you've burned through Grisham and need something sharper, this delivers.