Defending Jacob
A Novel
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists he is innocent, and Andy believes him. He must. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, a marriage threatens to crumble, the trial intensifies, and the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, truth and allegation, a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
