It is curious how a thriller, turned towards a judicial theme, can offer a more intense reading insofar as it offers us a perspective on Justice as something vulnerable and less blind than it appears to be. It is not that we are so naive as to continue assuming the impartiality of a mediated Justice, pressured and interfered with by the structure of the "democratic" system itself. But knowing to what extent a judge can be coerced with extremely dissuasive measures makes the hair stand on end.
Judge Sampson performs an exemplary performance, reconciling his trials and sentences with a fully satisfactory family life. Thanks to his wife and children, he finds that friendly space with which to escape from a judicial system that is not always rewarding.
But of course, Sampson has the power to decide on too many interests, lawful and spurious. And it is these seconds who can be willing to do anything to get the approval of a justice that supports their work outside the law.
The father and the judge are about to put himself on trial. The lives of those he loves most depend on the favorable decision to defend an ignominious case. You have time to meditate, if you can do so amid the frenzied feeling of panic that seizes you in gusts.
Or perhaps, why not, you can find a middle way. When a judge takes justice into his own hand, such action may have weighty grounds. In fact, his own life becomes a secondary argument in the case of the salvation of his wife and children.
But this story goes further, it leads us to his extraordinary solution amid twists and turns that surround the enigmatic disappearance of his family. An addictive reading of one of the greats of the black genre, very much in the vein of John Grisham darker.
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