DIVAfter surviving an unspeakable crime, a victim identifies a shocking attacker/divDIV Lynne Jacobi gets the call a few hours before dawn. Model-turned-television celebrity Sanderalee Dawson lies on the kitchen floor of her sumptuous Manhattan apartment, hanging on to life by a tenuous thread. The victim of a savage assault, she stuns everyone when she survives and identifies her attacker./divDIV /divDIVSo begins a case that leads law enforcement down a twisting path of secrets, lies, and false leads. Lynne, bureau chief of the district attorney’s office, is fueled by ambition and her vow to bring a brutal killer to justice. But Chief Investigator Bobby Jones isn’t sure they have the right man, and he hesitates to put his legal career—and his affair with Lynne—at risk. The victim herself, as the only witness to her rape, must go up against a monster who just might get away with it./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy Uhnak including rare images from the author’s estate./div

元警察官である著者ユナックは、本作で権力の中枢に潜む野心と、法の正義が孕む危うさを鋭く抉り出しています。被害者の不確実な記憶と、出世を望む女性検事の葛藤が交錯する様は、人間のエゴイズムを象徴する文学的な深みに満ちています。真実が歪められていく過程の緊迫感は、彼女の筆致ならではの凄みです。 映像化作品が事件の緊張感を強調する一方で、原作には文字でしか描き得ない心理的機微が存在します。読者は登場人物の道徳的ジレンマを深く追体験し、映像では削ぎ落とされがちな「心の揺らぎ」を堪能できます。両メディアを横断することで、正義という名の怪物の正体がより鮮明に浮かび上がる、至高の知覚体験が待っています。