John D MacDonald
25) Cape Fear
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach...
26) Cape Fear
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail.