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  <title><![CDATA[The Trial]]></title>
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  <default_description>A lawyer ready to die takes one final case...the trial of his life. 
Attorney Kent &quot;Mac&quot; MacClain has nothing left to live for. Nine years after the horrific accident that claimed the life of his wife and two sons, he's finally given up. His empty house is a mirror for his empty soul, it seems suicide is his only escape. And then the phone rings. 
Angela Hightower, the beautiful heiress and daughter of the most powerful man in Dennison Springs, has been found dead at the bottom of a ravine. The accused killer, Peter Thomason, needs a lawyer. But Mac has come up against the Hightowers and their ruthless, high-powered lawyers before -- an encounter that left his practice and reputation reeling. 
The evidence pointing to Thoomason's guilt seems insurmountable. Is Mac definding an ingenious psychopath, or has Thomason been framed--possibly by a member of the victim's family? It comes down to one last trial. For Thomason, the opponent is the electric chair. For Mac, it is his own tormented past--a foe that will prove every bit as deadly.
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Trial</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Whitlow]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who likes clean and intriguing books with a religious twist]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[my daughter, Becky]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 04 12:49:59 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 04 12:56:29 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;There are many ways to worship God. A song, a prayer, a word, a poem, a phrase, an emotion, a physical act, an intention of the heart, and countless other expressions can fix within the framework of accepted adoration.  But this day, the women worshipped in the beauty of quiet holiness.  It wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48235435">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Attorney Kent &quot;Mac&quot; MacClain is on the brink--nine years earlier, he was at the wheel in a horrible accident that took the lives of his wife and children. Mac is having a spiritual crisis--feeling unable to deal with the deep pain and hurt the accident placed upon his heart and soul and de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24793993">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 23 07:16:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 06:26:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book a lot.  It isn't great but I liked the story.  Too much evidence turned up after the trial to make it really believable.  The jury made a startling decision but we really didn't know the reason for.  But I still enjoyed the story.  ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 03 19:37:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 03 19:38:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of his books that I read, and I really enjoyed it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 12 07:40:14 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 16 13:52:12 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful book as all of Robert Whitlow books I've read.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="77331115">
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  <date_updated>Tue Nov 10 10:33:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it!]]></body>
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    <review id="25264218">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a bad read: okay character development but a predictable plot. The Trial was a fun and easy read but nnot truly unique or overly important, an okay Christian legal thriller if you have the time]]></body>
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    <review id="34317716">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 01 16:24:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very disappointing.  I was hooked because it was just fun to read something wholesome.  However, I have never read a published work with so many errors.  I'm a geek, so it REALLY distracted me.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34317716]]></url>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 03 15:03:08 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Christian John Grisham type book.  I loved this book since I really enjoy legal thrillers and this one is very well written.  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23628916]]></url>
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    <review id="63076025">
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    <body><![CDATA[Good read that required some suspension of disbelief.]]></body>
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    <review id="34672672">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best murder mystery I've read in a long, long while!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[all of Robert Whitlows books are a great read.]]></body>
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    <review id="29568728">
    <user id="832211">
    <name><![CDATA[Donna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Collierville, TN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Aug 07 18:58:18 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoy Robert Whitlow's law stories.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29568728]]></url>
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    <review id="37692650">
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 13 23:20:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book. ]]></body>
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