Defending Jacob is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2012 by William Landay
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Landay, William.
Defending Jacob: a novel / William Landay.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52759-2
1. Public prosecutors—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Massachusetts—
Fiction. I. Title.
PS3612.A5477D44 2011
813’.6—dc22 2011011623
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