“John Grisham, move over.” —The Seattle Times

“John Grisham, move over.”  —The Seattle Times

“Smart and savvy with more muscle than the average legal thriller. . .

Dugoni has put the thrills back in the genre.”  —Nelson DeMille

New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni delivers a searing courtroom drama in his newest thriller, BODILY HARM (May 25, 2010; Touchstone; $25.00/hardcover; 978-1-4165-9296-9).  When parents lose their six-year-old son to an esteemed pediatrician’s seeming negligence, they turn to attorney David Sloane for justice.

In his return as “the lawyer who does not lose,” Sloane is on the verge of another victory, but something about the malpractice case has bothered him from the start.  And his uneasiness grows when toy designer Kyle Horgan confronts him on the way to the verdict to claim responsibility not only for the child’s death but also for the fate of a second little boy in central Washington.

When the toy designer vanishes, leaving behind only a ransacked apartment, Sloane teams up with his longtime investigative partner (and former CIA operative) Charles Jenkins to reexamine the deaths and dig deeper into Horgan’s claims.  They are forced to enter the cutthroat world of toy manufacturing—where hundreds of millions of dollars are staked on finding the next “It” product.  Sloane must dodge a vicious and calculating killer, exonerate the doctor, and overcome a devastating personal loss that nearly destroys him—all while keeping in check his overwhelming desire for revenge.

Robert Dugoni is the New York Times bestselling author of The Jury Master and Wrongful Death. A civil litigator in San Francisco and Seattle for more than twenty years, he left the full-time practice of law to write in 1999.  Earning comparisons with early Scott Turow, John Grisham, and David Baldacci, Dugoni is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest. 

Enclosed, please find an advance reader’s copy of BODILY HARM for review consideration.

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Jessica Roth

212-698-4665

jessica.roth@simonandschuster.com