Used book – 72 heures, Philippe Bilger

Three days is the amount of time Frédéric Loriot will spend in the dock during his trial. Three days during which the Assize Court will try to determine whether or not he pushed his mistress from the top of a building. Witnesses follow one another, experts prevaricate, lawyers plead... the accused observes, listens, analyzes... and recounts the trial in detail: he is surprised by the jurors' nonchalance, expresses his initial distrust of his lawyer, mocks the experts' arrogance, denounces the magistrates' coldness... Nothing escapes him. Will these 72 hours of debate lead him to thirty years behind bars? It is Philippe Bilger's talent and art to maintain the suspense until the last line of this fascinating legal novel.